Jacob Yeager and Susanna Buffington

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Husband Jacob Yeager ¹

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           Born: 11 Mar 1793 - Dauphin Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Yeager (1767-1835) 1
         Mother: Catherine Rauch (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1815 1

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Wife Susanna Buffington ¹

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         Father: George Buffington (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Barbara Hoffman (1763-      ) 1 2

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Fisher (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M Jeremiah M. "Jerry" Yeager ^{1 3}

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           Born: 26 Mar 1832 - Dauphin Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Mary J. Creighton (      -      ) 4

         Spouse: Anna Maria Mann (      -1910) 4 5
           Marr: 22 Dec 1874 4

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Yeager

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It was from him that Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, took its name.

He was a soldier in the War of 1812.
In 1830, he secured from the Patent Office at Washington, D. C., a patent for a mold-board to a plough; this mold-board became used throughout the United States.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were the parents of eight children, of whom Jeremiah M. was the youngest.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 565.

2 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 211.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 432.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 566.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1913), Pg 431.