Laura Reed Yaggy, is a violinist of much ability widely known to the concert stage whose performances Thaddeus Rich, in a personal letter to Mrs. Yaggy declares possess "a rare combination of temperament and finish... a facile technique and a very warm and beautiful tone." In closing his letter of felicitation the concert master wrote, "I am sure your playing will bring you great success and my heartiest congratulations and best wishes accompany you." Mrs. Yaggy has appeared with great success with such artists as Johanna Gadski, Paulo Gruppe, Arthur Middleton, James Whitaker, Barbara Waite, Ida Gardner Raphael Navas, and others. She began violin lessons when seven years old, and at eleven played the Souvenir de Haydn of Leonard, in a public concert. At the age of thirteen she played the Mendelssohn Concerto entire with the Kansas City Symphony. Madame Camilla Urso, the famous violinist was present on that occasion and was so captivated by the performance that she later sent for the young violinist to come and live with her in Minneapolis to continue her study. At the age of fourteen Miss. Reed played Vieuxtemp's Fantasia Appassionata entire with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, and after studying nearly a year with Leopold Lichtenberg of New York, she played at the age of seventeen the great Max Bruch G Minor Concerto at one of her own concerts. This early career was temporarily interrupted by her marriage at the age of eighteen, but after seven years of retirement, Mrs. Yaggy again felt the lure of the concert stage and made her appearance in April 1913, as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, and recently with the New York Philharmonic at the Hutchinson 1916 festival, devoting a part of her time to the concert stage. She is the possessor of a rare Sanctus Serafine violin, which sold thirty years ago for three thousand dollars and is today worth much more than that figure being considered one of the most valuable instruments in the United States. Mrs. Yaggy, is the founder of the Apollo Club at Hutchinson and was the first president of the same. She was an active member of the club and served as vice president. She is an ardent suffragist and during the memorable campaign of 1912 was president of the Reno County Equal Suffrage Association.

To Mr. and Mrs. Yaggy, two children have been born: Laura Coates and Edward Esher Jr.

(History of Reno County, Kansas: Its People, Industries and ..., Volume 2. By Sheridan Ploughe)