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BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Fairfield and Perry Counties
Published: Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co.
1883
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MRS. MARGARET YAKA,
Pike township; post office, New Lexington, Ohio; was born
Dec. 21, 1816, in Mansfield, Ohio; daughter of Samuel and
Drusilla (Creig) Croskrey. At the time of
Mrs. Yaka's birth there were but few cabins in
Mansfield. She was married to Henry, son of
Mark and Elizabeth (Davidson) Yaka, of Loudon county,
Virginia, Oct. 23, 1842. They are the parents of five
children, viz.: Mary E., Samuel, Wm. B., Catharine,
and John Henry. They also adopted a child,
Sarah J. Two and the adopted child—Mary E.
and William B., are now living. Mrs. Yaka
has lived a farmer's wife since her marriage, and now lives
near New Lexington in her own house. Her grandfather
Croskrey came to this State in an early day, and
entered four quarter sections of land, that is now the
present site of Mansfield city, and her father built the
first house in that city; but on account of her mother's
health, he moved from that place, and finally settled in
Perry county, O., where he lived until his death.
Mr. Henry Yaka, husband of the subject of this
sketch, died June 11, 1880.
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DAVID YARGER, farmer; post
office, New Lexington, Perry county; born in this county in
1829; son of Jacob and Susannah (Keister) Yarger;
grandson of John and Elizabeth (Auker) Yarger.
The latter died in 1864. Mr. Yarger has been
twice married; first, in 1857, to Miss Sophia
Kokensparger. This union was blessed with seven
children, viz.: William H., Frederick D., Safah A.,
Samuel, Noah E., John, Charles. Mr. Yarger was
married again in 1871, to Miss Mary Barker, daughter
of William Barker. They have one child, viz.:
Allie.
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JACOB YARGER, SR.,
farmer, Clayton township, Perry county; post office, New
Lexington; born in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, in 1803;
came to this county with his father in 1811; son of John
and Elizabeth (Auker) Yarger; the former died about the
year 1853, the latter about the year 1823. Mr.
Yarger was married in 1828, to Miss Susan
Keister, daughter of John and Mary M. (Hunts) Keister.
They are the parents of eleven children, viz.: John,
deceased; David, Jacob, Peter, Daniel, Elizabeth,
deceased; Samuel, Adam, Henry, Mary,
Joshua, are all deceased.
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JACOB YARGER, JR.,
farmer, Clayton township, Perrv county; post office. New
Lexington: son of Jacob and Susannah (Keister)
Yarger. The latter died in 1864. Grandson of
John and Elizabeth (Auker)
Yarger. Mr. Yarger was married in
1862, to Miss Saloma, daughter of Henry
and Saloma (Yarger) Kokensparger.
They have four children, viz.: Jacob H., Mary E., Levi H.
Saloma K.
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A. R. YOST,
dealer in general hardware and agricultural implements,
Somerset. He was born in 1839, in this county. His
father, Isaac Yost, was born in 1807 in Mifflin county,
Pennsylvania. They came to this county in 1808, settling
in Reading township. John, grandfather of A. R.
Yost, died in 1854; his grandmother, in 1859. They
were the parents of seven children. The father of the
subject of this sketch was the oldest. He was married in
1834 to Miss Elizabeth Pherson, of Clayton township.
She was born in 1815. He removed to Clayton township in
1834 and lived there until his death, May 10th, 1818. His
wife died in 1874. They were the parents of eight
children. A. R. Yost is the third. He was
married in 1864, to Miss Olivia Leiter, of Stark county.
She was born in 1841 in Mansfield, Richland county. They
are the parents of three children, Charlie, Mary and
Laura. In 1869 he came from the farm and engaged in
the dry goods line with his brother Albert. Went
out of that in 1876. Began the hardware business in 1878,
buying an entire new stock. He is, also the patentee of an
axle oiler.
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JOHN L. YOUNKER,
blacksmith, Maxville, Ohio; born in the Kingdom of
Wurtemberg, Germany, Nov. 16, 1838; son of Leonard and
Christina (Wittman) Younker. His father was very
desirous that his son should become master of the sciences,
and in early boyhood he attended school at Limbach, Germany;
and at the age of 14 years entered Temple Hof academy in the
same kingdom, and made such progress, that at eighteen years
of age, he was permitted to enter the famous Erlangen
University, in the Kingdom of Bavaria. He had only
remained here two years, when the death of his parents threw
him upon his own resources, and he was compelled to give up
his college life, and at once emigrated to America, landing
in New York City, Sept. 21, 1858, and at once went to
Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, and apprenticed himself
to the machinist trade, and continued to apply himself at
this trade for about eighteen months, when he also began to
work at the blacksmith trade. On the 31st day of
March, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Twelfth Regiment,
United States Infantry, serving as corporal, and
participated in all the battles of the 'Army of the Potomac,
until he was taken prisoner at Coal Harbor, Virginia, June
11, 1863. He was at once taken to Richmond, and from
there to Andersonville, Georgia, where he endured all the
tortures and sufferings of that infernal rebel prison; was
taken from Andersonville to Florence, thence to Charleston,
South Carolina, where he was paroled Dec. 11, 1864, having
been a prisoner exactly eighteen months. After being
paroled, he returned to Annapolis, Maryland, and rejoined
the army, and served until the expiration of his term of
enlistment as hospital steward. He was honorably
discharged from the army at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor,
Mar. 31, 1865, and immediately returned to his home in
Circleville, Ohio, and resumed the trade of blacksmithing,
which employment he has ever since followed. In the
autumn of 1877, he removed to Webb Summit, Hocking county,
and remained three years, removing to Maxville, Perry
county, Ohio, in 1880, where he has ever since resided.
In the spring of 1881 he was elected Justice of the Peace,
which office he still continues to hold. Was
married in Circleville, Ohio, Dec. 9, 1860, to Loisa,
daughter of George and Phoebe Schlicher of Perry
county, Ohio, to whom were born six children, viz.:
Frank, Mary, Emma, Rose, Maggie and Philip M.;
the oldest, Frank died in infancy. Mr.
Younker is considered one of the best read men of the
township in which he resides, and is a first-class mechanic
and a good citizen.
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E. P. YOUNKIN, Pleasant
township, Moxahala, carpenter, born September, 1842, in
Bearfield township ; son of John and Margaret (Trout)
Younkin, both natives of Pennsylvania. His father
came to this State in 1818, entered a farm in Bearfield
township and became one of the wealthiest formers in that
township. He was in the War of 181 2, and, died July
12, 1881, aged 90 years. When the subject of this
sketch grew up to manhood he went to Illinois, remained
there nineteen months and the rest of the three years he
spent in the west he lived in Iowa; he then returned to
Perry where he remained one year, then came back to Moxahala,
where he still resides. June 7, 1873, he married
Miss Agnes McCall, daughter of Matthew and Levina
(Gaddis) McCall, of Morgan county, and of Scotch
descent.
Source: History of Fairfield and Perry Counties -
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