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SAMUEL SCHULTZ YEAGER, a prominent farmer of Worcester township, was born September 23, 1869, in the township where he now lives. He attended the district schools until he was fifteen years of age, when he went to work on his father’s farm. After five years spent in this way he obtained employment with Joseph K. Schultz, another farmer, with whom he remained four years. He then assisted Jacob Fisher on his farm for two years. He married and removed to Lansdale, working in the flour mills of A. C. Gotshall & Company for two years. During the first year he lived in a house which he rented, but the next year he built a house for himself. In the spring of 1898 he sold his home in Lansdale and bought the farm on which he lives. It consists of thirty-six acres, and has a good dairy. Mr. Yeager attends the Schwenkfelder church, of which he is a member. He is a Democrat, as was his father before him.

In 1894 Samuel Schultz Yeager married Flora M. Cassel, who was born March 26, 1870, a daughter of Mahlon H. and Lydia K. (Meschter) Cassel. Samuel S. and Flora Yeager have one child, Elmer, born July 23, 1901.

Mahlon H. Cassel married Lydia K., daughter of Rev. George Meschter, January 25, 1868. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Cassel: Minnie M., born November 27, 1868; Flora; Alice, born July 12, 1871; Martha, born May 8, 1873. Minnie M. Cassel married Milton Benner; who lives in Worcester township. Mattie is deceased. Alice married Melvin Allebach, and is also deceased. Joseph Cassel, the grandfather of Mrs. Yeager, born April 28, 1805, married, November 9, 1826, Rebecca, daughter of Abraham Heebner. Their children: Mary, born September 7, 1827; Amos, who was born June 23, 1830, and died March 2, 1858; Sarah, January 31, 1832; Henry, May 30, 1834; Edith, October 28, 1836; Susanna, April 4, 1839; Mahlon, April 10, 1840; Hannah, July 29, 1845; Christian, November 19, 1846; and Leah, April 21, 1850.

Abraham Heebner was the father of the wife of Joseph Cassel (Mrs. Yeager’s grandfather). He married, December 1, 1791, Catharine, daughter of Matthias Rittenhouse. Their children were: Sarah, Hannah, Christopher, John, Joseph, Susanna, Rebecca, (grandmother); Mary and Elizabeth. Both the Cassel and the Heebner families were Schwenkfelders.

Rev. George Meschter (Mrs. Yerger’s maternal grandfather) was born March 28, 1808, and married, May 13, 1830, Sophia, daughter of Andrew Kriebel. Their children were: Catharine, born May 7, 1831; Abraham, August 31, 1833; Maria, who was born April 6, 1836, and died in infancy; Jacob, born July 4, 1837; George, born May 2, 1840; Lydia (mother), born June 5, 1843; John, June 15, 1847; and Aaron, who was born April 17, 1852, and died in infancy. He was a minister of the Schwenkfelders and lived in Lower Salford, near Mainland. He died many years ago. His wife died in 1852. Rev. George Meschter’s father was Christopher, born July 21, 1779, who was the son of Christopher Meschter, born December 17, 1746, who was the son of Melchior Meschter and his wife Regina, who came in 1734 to Pennsylvania with the other Schwenkfelders.

Jesse Yeager (father), born February 6, 1831, married, October 12, 1858, Mary, daughter of Frederick Schultz. Their children are as follows: Selina, born May 23, 1859, married Alfred Baus, a farmer of East Greenville, and they have had three children, one being deceased. Isaiah, born July 13, 1861, is deceased. Mary Ann, born October 19, 1862, died at the age of eighteen years. Isabella, born October 18, 1864, married Frederick Rentschler, who came from Germany in infancy and is a farmer of Worcester. John, born August 27, 1866, married a western woman, and resides in Texas, where he is a farmer by occupation. They have had one child, now deceased. Samuel is the subject of this sketch. Irwin, born March 19, 1872, a motorman on the trolley line, living in Germantown, married Ella Henry, and they have four children. Morris, born September 28, 1874, killed on the railroad at Lancaster, stepping out of the way of one train and being struck by another which was coming in the opposite direction.

Frederick Schultz (maternal grandfather), born June 28, 1795, was the son of Rev. Melchoir Shultz. He married, May 31, 1827, Mary K., daughter of Abraham Kriebel. Their children: Dinah K., born February 23, 1828, died January 21, 1846; Adonia K., born March 25, 1830; Naomi K., born October 21, 1832; Mary K. (mother), born December 17, 1834; Lydia K., born January 4, 1839, died January 28, 1846; Joseph K., born April 9, 1841, married October 18, 1864, Sarah S., daughter of Isaac S. Kriebel, and they have eight children; he was a farmer in Worcester township; Sarah K., born April 12, 1845. Frederick W. Schultz died April 12, 1867, and his widow died July 20, 1875.

Rev. Melchoir Schultz (great-grandfather), born March 25, 1756, was the son of George Schultz. He married Salom, daughter of Christopher Wagner, November 29, 1781. Their children were Christina, Regina, Maria, Henry W., Sarah, Frederick and Susannah (twins), and Rosina. He lived in Worcester township.

George Schultz (great-great-grandfather) was the father of Melchoir Schultz, who came to Pennsylvania with the Schwenkfelders in 1734. George Schultz married Maria, daughter of Abraham Yeakle, January 31, 1744. He died October 30, 1776, aged sixty-five years, and she December 13, 1797, aged seventy-nine years. Their children were: Abraham, born March 23, 1747, and Rev. Melchoir.