William It Yeager, prominent furniture manufacturer and banker, was born Oct. 6, 1862, at Allentown. He received his education in the Schools of the city, Muhlenberg College and Allentown Business College. After serving as a bookkeeper and salesman for five years, he formed a partnership with John Kluenter in 1885, and traded under the name of Kluenter & Yeager in the manufacture of adjustable window screens and while carrying on this business, it was gradually extended into the manufacture of furniture frames for parlor, library and dining rooms, and also fancy chairs. Their factory was located at Court and Hall Streets until 1889, when it was moved to larger quarters on Lehigh Street which have since been enlarged to meet the demands of increasing business. This partnership continued ten years, when Mr. Yeager bought the interest of his partner and formed a corporation to trade under the name of "The Yeager Furniture Company" of which he became secretary and treasurer and these positions he has filled most satisfactorily until the present time.

Besides attending to the interests of the large furniture company, he assisted materially in organizing the Penn Allen Cement Company, (serving since as treasurer) and the Merchants National Bank, (serving since as a director). He has been prominently identified with the Y. M. C. A. for many years, more especially since the erection of the new Building at Centre Square, having acted as a chairman of the building committee. He as affiliated with the Masonic Fraternity, the Livingston Club and the Country Club.

In 1885, Mr. Yeaer was married to H. Ella Duff, a daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Baffler) Duff, and they have a daughter, Florence P., who after attending the schools of the city, was graduated from the Allentown College for Women and the Castle, at Tarrytown-in-the Hudson, N. Y. They are members of St. Paul's Ev. Lutheran Church, which Mr. Yeager served as deacon and elder, also was a representative to the General Synod. He has officiated as a director of the Gettysburg Seminary since 1901. Mr. Yeager resides at 47 South Seventh Street.