Biographical Sketch of Joseph YEAGER (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 776-7. "JOSEPH YEAGER, of East Pikeland township, who has been successfully engaged for the last decade in farming, dairying and trucking, is a son of George and Hannah (Ecker) Yeager, and was born January 26, 1842, on the farm on which he now resides, in East Pikeland township, Chester county, Pennsyl- vania. "His paternal grandfather, John Yeager, came about the commencement of the nineteenth century to Pikeland township, where he purchased and cleared out the present farm of the subject of this sketch. A part of the improvements which he made still remain in a good state of preservation, and attest to the hard toil with which in that early day he cleared out and improved his tract of one hundred and forty-two acres of land. He married and reared a family of six children, two sons and four daughters, among whom were John, George, Rachel and Rixstine. "George Yeager (father) was born in 1806, and died in 1883, aged seventy- seven years. He learned the trade of tailor, at which he worked for only a short time, and then was engaged in farming during the rest of his life. He was a democrat and held various township offices, while in religion he was of the Reformed faith, having served for many years as a deacon and elder of St. Peter's Reformed church. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Ecker, was a daughter of Christopher Ecker. Mr. and Mrs. Yeager were the parents of three children, one son and two daughters: Joseph, Magdalena Rixstine and Mary A. Rixstine. "Joseph Yeager was reared on the farm, received his education in the common schools, and then was engaged in farming with his father until the death of the latter, when he purchased sixty-eight acres of the home farm. His land is well improved, well watered and very productive. To farming Mr. Yeager has added dairying and trucking, and in each of these lines of business has met with good success. He is a democrat in politics and a member of Vincent Reformed church, in which he has served as a deacon. "On October 18, 1862, Mr. Yeager married Sallie Snyder, a daughter of John and Sarah (Friday) Snyder, of East Vincent township. To Mr. and Mrs. Yeager have been born six children, five sons and one daughter: George A., who married Ida Shantz, and was successively engaged in butchering and working in a paper mill until his death in 1890, at the age of twenty-six years and six months; Harry S., married Annie D. Aiken, and is a farmer of Schuylkill township; Howard, Emma J., J. Willis, and Luther, who is now dead."