Lester Marvin Yeager (1913 - 2001)

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Opal Yeager Watts and her Brother Oral Watts

Lori Yeager-Salyer

Lori Yeager-Salyer

Sarah Jane Yeager

Harry & Lois Yeager Family, Pennsylvania

Joe Tresenriter, Illinois c1960

John Yeager & his daughter Mabel

Henry Odom and Ada Yeager

G.P. Yeager and Margaret E. Yeager

Yeager & Sons - Real Estate & Rentals

Yeager-Chesher Land Company Letterhead

The G.P. Yeager Family

Dana Yeager, OES, Areme #147

Dana Yeager holds great-great-niece Adriana

Dana (Webb) Yeager, Dancing With Her Son

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In 1913, in the year that Lester Marvin Yeager was born, ratified in February the 16th Amendment, establishing a Federal income tax, became law. Previously, customs duties (tariffs) and excise taxes were the primary sources of federal revenue. With the passage of the 16th Amendment, incomes of couples exceeding $4,000, as well as those of single persons earning $3,000 or more, were subject to a 1% Federal tax (that would be about $98,000 and $74,000 now). Rates rose to 7% for incomes over half a million dollars. Less than 1% of the population was subject to income tax.

In 1928, by the time he was only 15 years old, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.

In 1933, Lester was 20 years old when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.

In 1974, by the time he was 61 years old, on February 5th, Patty Hearst, age 19 - granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and daughter of publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Randolph Hearst - was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left wing terrorist group. She was found, alive, 19 months later.

In 1990, when he was 77 years old, after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid was released on February 11th 1990.