BIOGRAPHIES: Edward J. YAGER, Doyle/Cedar Lake Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 28 June 2002 ==================================================================== Edward J. Yager has lived on his present place of 220 acres on the boundary line between Doyle and Cedar Lake townships, for some twenty years, since 1901, when, having reached his majority, he left his parental farm in Jefferson County, this state, and bought his present farm, then a tract of eighty acres, but now enlarged to 220 acres, which lies in Section 8, Doyle Township, and Section 31, Cedar Lake Township. This land was partly improved, and to its cultivation and further development he has since devoted his attention. He has added to the house, and now has a most excellent set of buildings, as well as good equipment throughout the place. He carries on general farming and dairying, and has a fine herd of Holstein cattle, which are the pride of the neighborhood. His Holstein cattle, of which he has some 30 head, are all full blood, and include about fifteen daughters of Sir Johann Piebe, a sire that has three daughters that produced over 1,000 pounds of butter in one year, and up to 26,000 pounds of milk. There are also five two-year-old daughters that have produced over 800 pounds of butter in a year. The present herd sire of Mr. Yager's is Count Walker Segis Pontiac, son of a "count" who has eight daughters that have produced over 1,000 pounds of butter per year. His daughters have broken the world's records over one hundred times. Mr. Yager's business holdings include stock in the Consumers' Store at Rice Lake; the Equity Exchange at Campia; and the Henricks Chemical Company of Minneapolis. He has served on the school board of his district. Mr. Yager was born in Jefferson County, this state, May 12, 1880, the son of Andrew and Katherine (Scharf) Yager, natives of Germany, who came to America in 1866, at the close of the Civil War, and for many years farmed in Jefferson County, where they were reputable and respected people. He received his education in the schools of his native country. Mr. Yager was married at Palo, Michigan, Sept. 19, 1906, to Mary Kramer, born at Antigo, Wis., on July 3, 1886, the daughter of James and Rosa (Frolik) Kramer, natives of Bohemia, who are now living in Birchwood, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Yager have four children: Theodore J., born June 15, 1907; Edward J., born Jan. 9, 1909; Frederick M., born May 16, 1912; and Emily, born Oct. 21, 1915. The family faith is that of the Lutheran Church. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1922, pg. 731.