Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 527-528 [McCracken] HON. DAVID A. YEISER, was born in Danville, Kentucky, October 13, 1845, and in 1862 went into the drug business at Paducah, in which he continued for thirty-six years. In 1901 he sold his store. He was four times elected a member of the city council, and as a candidate of the Democratic party was elected mayor of Paducah. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. In religious views he is a Presbyterian. His first wife was Miss Arrabella Cole, to whom he was united in 1871, and by whom he had one child, Joseph. She died soon after the latter's birth. In 1876 Mr. Yeiser married Mary Coleman, by whom he has four children, namely: Anna, Florence, Mary and David. Mr. Yeiser is a director in the Commercial Club, and is a very enterprising and progressive business man and important political factor in Paducah. Yeiser Cole Coleman = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/mccracken/yeiser.da.txt