Henry Yager
Henry Wandal Yager (bef May 12, 1802 – January 9, 1860) was a farmer, businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in
Thurlow Township, Hastings County, Ontario about 1800. He was not a United Empire Loyalist. He married Elizabeth White, daughter of Reuben White who was also elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
.
From the land records, it appears that he was an active speculator frequently buying and selling land in the area and is often referred to as a merchant in the deeds though no record of his business has been found. In 1834, Yager was elected to the 12th Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada session for
Hastings
. He was a reformer. Thirteen letters were saved by the family from his political years and are now held by the Archives of Canada and called the Henry W Yager Fonds.
In 1847, he left Canada and took his family to Wisconsin, where he bought a farm in Dane County, Wisconsin about 4 miles from Madison, near the home of his daughter Lorinda. He died in Dane County in 1860.
References
- Becoming Prominent: Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841, J.K. Johnson, McGill-Queen's Univ Press, (1989)
- The Rebels of Hastings, Betsy Dewar Boyce, University of Toronto Press, (1992)