Eager was born in Sangerfield, Oneida County, New York.

The evidence

• “Eager was born in Sangerfield, Oneida county, N. Y., on March 14, 1838, a son of William and Caroline (Northrup) Eager. His father was born in Oneida county and his mother in Delaware county, New York, and they were reared and married in their native state.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 513 / book p. 999

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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