BIOGRAPHIES:  Martin YAGER, Turtle Lake Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  14 January 2004
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Martin Yager, a well-known and respected farmer of Turtle Lake Township,
was born in Sibley County, Minnesota, Sept. 29, 1887, son of Joseph and
Mary Yager. The parents, natives of the United States, were early settlers
in Sibley County, where Joseph Yager is still living. Mrs. Mary Yager died
when her son, Martin, was a young child, and he was early deprived of his
mother's care. He attended common school for the usual period, and remained
on the home farm, participating in the labor necessary to its cultivation,
until 1911. He then came to Barron County, and for six years worked here as
a farm hand. During that period, though not yet ready to start in for
himself, bought 80 acres of wild land in Section 21, Turtle Lake Township.
This he sold in 1910, purchasing 90 acres of partly improved land in
Section 31, which is the farm on which he now lives. It is provided with
fairly good buildings and Mr. Yager has ten acres under the plow, the rest
of his land being in pasture. He is giving his attention to general farming
and dairying, his cattle being grade Holsteins, and the herd including at
present twelve cows and six calves. Mr. Yager is a Republican in politics
and a member of the Catholic Church. He was married June 16, 1917, to Anna,
daughter of Fred and Rosa Mewes of Turtle Lake Township, and he and his
wife have two children: Florence, born April 24, 1918, and Caroline
Gertrude, born April 2, 1921.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 165.

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