Background
Yeager was born August 16, 1892 in Danville, Illinois, where he graduated from high school.
Yeager was born August 16, 1892 in Danville, Illinois, where he graduated from high school.
He then attended the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois for two years (1911–1913) and then earned a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture for the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1915.
Yeager supervised construction on the United States. Post Office Building (1915–1917) for Yeager & Sons, Contractors, served as a second lieutenant in the army during World War I (1917–1918), and was variously employed architectural offices in Chicago, Terre Haute, and Madison, Wisconsin., located at 402 Opera House Building, Terre Haute, Indiana, was responsible for many landmarks in Indianapolis and greater Indiana, and a number have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Coca Cola Company Building, Terre Haute, Indiana, built for $200,000.
Works by Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager.
He was the president of the Indiana Society of Architects in 1937, 1945–1946, the Indiana chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1945-1946, member of the Indian Society of Architects from 1923 and chapter of the American Institute of Architects since 1926 (the two merged in 1946), director of the Great Lakes District of the American Institute of Architects in 1946-1947.
