Edward Esher Yaggy, of Hutchinson one of the best known and most progressive citizens of this section of Kansas, president of the Yaggy Plantation Company, an incorporation of the great estate of the late L.W. Yaggy, in Grant township, this county and for years prominently identified with the work of developing the resources of this region, is a native of Chicago born in that city March 19, 1876, son of L.W. and Sarah E. (Esher) Yaggy.
Edward E. Yaggy received his preparatory schooling in the academy and college at Lake Forest, Illinois and then entered Yale from which he graduated after a three years course with a Bachelor of Arts in 1899. With a view to broaden his education, and in order to perfect himself in French and German, Mr. Yaggy, then went abroad and for eighteen months or more, attended lectures in the university at Geneva, Switzerland, and in the University of Erlangen in Bavaria, upon the completion of which course he returned to the United States, and entered upon the duties of manager of his father's estate and has ever since then been thus engaged. The Yaggy estate included, besides the great plant of the Yaggy Plantation Company, valuable lands in other parts of Kansas and in Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, and the Yaggy brothers are thus very well circumstanced the head of the company, long having been regarded as one of the most substantial citizens of this part of the state.
On December 27, 1905, at Kansas City, Missouri, he married Laura Reed, daughter of Homer and Laura (Coates) Reed.
(History of Reno County, Kansas: Its People, Industries and ..., Volume 2. By Sheridan Ploughe)
Edward E. Yaggy received his preparatory schooling in the academy and college at Lake Forest, Illinois and then entered Yale from which he graduated after a three years course with a Bachelor of Arts in 1899. With a view to broaden his education, and in order to perfect himself in French and German, Mr. Yaggy, then went abroad and for eighteen months or more, attended lectures in the university at Geneva, Switzerland, and in the University of Erlangen in Bavaria, upon the completion of which course he returned to the United States, and entered upon the duties of manager of his father's estate and has ever since then been thus engaged. The Yaggy estate included, besides the great plant of the Yaggy Plantation Company, valuable lands in other parts of Kansas and in Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, and the Yaggy brothers are thus very well circumstanced the head of the company, long having been regarded as one of the most substantial citizens of this part of the state.
On December 27, 1905, at Kansas City, Missouri, he married Laura Reed, daughter of Homer and Laura (Coates) Reed.
(History of Reno County, Kansas: Its People, Industries and ..., Volume 2. By Sheridan Ploughe)
Edward Esher Yaggy, of Hutchinson one of the best known and most progressive citizens of this section of Kansas, president of the Yaggy Plantation Company, an incorporation of the great estate of the late L.W. Yaggy, in Grant township, this county and for years prominently identified with the work of developing the resources of this region, is a native of Chicago born in that city March 19, 1876, son of L.W. and Sarah E. (Esher) Yaggy.
Edward E. Yaggy received his preparatory schooling in the academy and college at Lake Forest, Illinois and then entered Yale from which he graduated after a three years course with a Bachelor of Arts in 1899. With a view to broaden his education, and in order to perfect himself in French and German, Mr. Yaggy, then went abroad and for eighteen months or more, attended lectures in the university at Geneva, Switzerland, and in the University of Erlangen in Bavaria, upon the completion of which course he returned to the United States, and entered upon the duties of manager of his father's estate and has ever since then been thus engaged. The Yaggy estate included, besides the great plant of the Yaggy Plantation Company, valuable lands in other parts of Kansas and in Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, and the Yaggy brothers are thus very well circumstanced the head of the company, long having been regarded as one of the most substantial citizens of this part of the state.
On December 27, 1905, at Kansas City, Missouri, he married Laura Reed, daughter of Homer and Laura (Coates) Reed.
(History of Reno County, Kansas: Its People, Industries and ..., Volume 2. By Sheridan Ploughe)
Edward E. Yaggy received his preparatory schooling in the academy and college at Lake Forest, Illinois and then entered Yale from which he graduated after a three years course with a Bachelor of Arts in 1899. With a view to broaden his education, and in order to perfect himself in French and German, Mr. Yaggy, then went abroad and for eighteen months or more, attended lectures in the university at Geneva, Switzerland, and in the University of Erlangen in Bavaria, upon the completion of which course he returned to the United States, and entered upon the duties of manager of his father's estate and has ever since then been thus engaged. The Yaggy estate included, besides the great plant of the Yaggy Plantation Company, valuable lands in other parts of Kansas and in Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, and the Yaggy brothers are thus very well circumstanced the head of the company, long having been regarded as one of the most substantial citizens of this part of the state.
On December 27, 1905, at Kansas City, Missouri, he married Laura Reed, daughter of Homer and Laura (Coates) Reed.
(History of Reno County, Kansas: Its People, Industries and ..., Volume 2. By Sheridan Ploughe)
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