Clifford was the son of Edward Lewis Yager and Harriet Cynthia Niles. He went to Hopkins High School. In 1928 he married Hazel Lindahl, daughter of Gustaf Lindahl and Ada Johnson. As a youth, he built a crystal radio and a tube radio, and he was a "ham" radio operator for many years. He went to Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis. During the "depression", he rode the rails west to find work, unsuccessfully. He did spend a short time as a "gandy dancer", straightening rails. He lived most of his adult life in Chicago. Clifford was a "stationary engineer". He worked at the Morrison Hotel, the Michael-Reese Hospital and the Willoughby Tower. He had life membership in Chicago Council of Engineers No. 1. He also was Mason and had earned his 50 year Masonic pin. His father and grandfather Yagers were Masons as well. After he retired he had a condominium in Boynton Beach, Florida in the winter, and a summer home on Lobster Lake, near Alexandria, Minnesota. He is buried with Lindahls and Heinekes.
Clifford was the son of Edward Lewis Yager and Harriet Cynthia Niles. He went to Hopkins High School. In 1928 he married Hazel Lindahl, daughter of Gustaf Lindahl and Ada Johnson. As a youth, he built a crystal radio and a tube radio, and he was a "ham" radio operator for many years. He went to Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis. During the "depression", he rode the rails west to find work, unsuccessfully. He did spend a short time as a "gandy dancer", straightening rails. He lived most of his adult life in Chicago. Clifford was a "stationary engineer". He worked at the Morrison Hotel, the Michael-Reese Hospital and the Willoughby Tower. He had life membership in Chicago Council of Engineers No. 1. He also was Mason and had earned his 50 year Masonic pin. His father and grandfather Yagers were Masons as well. After he retired he had a condominium in Boynton Beach, Florida in the winter, and a summer home on Lobster Lake, near Alexandria, Minnesota. He is buried with Lindahls and Heinekes.
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