WWW Index

Woman's Who's Who of America
New York: American Commonwealth Company, 1914. 

Transcribed by Dick Barton

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YAGER, Emma S. (Mrs. William V. Yager), Calmar, Iowa.

Born Boscobel, Wis., Aug. 31, 1860; dau. Joseph T. and Mary A. (Desmond) Shipley; ed. Decorah High School; m. May 1, 1884, William V. Yager; children: Beatrice Mary, b. Apr. 18, 1890; James Vincent, b. Oct. 14, 1899. Promoted the Boy Scout movement in city. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Church steward. Mem. W.C.T.U., Ladies Aid Soc. (pres., sec. and treas. at different times); founder Cemetery Ass'n; district treas. Woman's Home Missionary Soc., eight years; treas. Children's Home Finding Soc. Recreation: Traveling. Mem. Calmar Literary Soc., Calmar Study Club (has been pres., sec, treas. and chairman Program Com.).