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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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SAMUEL M. YERGER, a farmer of Towamencin township, Montgomery county, was born in Lower Pottsgrove township, October 30, 1859, his parents being Abraham and Sarah (Miller) Yerger, in whose family were eleven children: Ann Amanda, deceased, Josiah M., Sarah A., Abraham M., Mary A., Henry J., Jacob M., Samuel M., Milton J., John F. and Daniel.
Samuel M. Yerger began his education in the common schools and continued to pursue his studies there until eighteen years of age. He lived on a farm until twenty-two years of age, after which he learned the harness-making trade, serving two years’ apprenticeship. He worked as a journeyman for sixteen years, at the end of which time he purchased the harness shop of his employer, C. S. Stover, of Kulpsville. He also bought a barber business of the same man, and is now conducting this. In 1898 he purchased twenty acres of land in Kulpsville, upon which he has since made his home.
Mr. Yerger gives his political allegiance to the Republican party and has served as judge of elections and is now filling the office of township assessor. He formerly belonged to the Lutheran church.
In 1884 Mr. Yerger was married to Miss Emma C. Jones, a daughter of R. F. Jones, of Upper Gwynedd, Montgomery county. Unto them have been born two children: Stanley J. and Le Roy J.
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