BIO: WILLIAM C. DRAGER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 382
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    WILLIAM C. DRAGER, postmaster at Boiling Springs, Cumberland county, is a
  native of Churchtown, this county, born in 1864. He is a son of Conrad and
  Charlotte (Zinn) Drager, the former of whom died in 1891, aged sixty-nine
  years. The mother is now aged seventy-two years. Conrad Drager was a native
  of Nienburg, Hanover, Germany, and spent his boyhood in that country,
  receiving a liberal education. He learned the trade of tailoring, and
  traveled over the greater portion of Germany, and then, animated by a desire
  to see the New World of which he had heard so much, he came to America,
  landing at Baltimore, Md. There he remained for a time, possibly two years,
  when he removed to Churchtown, Cumberland county, where he met his wife.
  During the time he was a resident of Churchtown he conducted a tailoring
  establishment, and in 1873 he came to Boiling Springs, here following the
  same line of business until about 1888, when he turned the establishment over
  to his son William. In politics Conrad Drager was a stanch Republican. In
  religious matters he was a consistent member of the Lutheran Church from the
  time he was fourteen years of age. Of the children born to himself and wife,
  two lived to maturity, William C. and Nettie, the latter the wife of John C.
  Spera, of Decatur, Illinois.
    
    William C. Drager was reared in his native place until the family moved to
  Boiling Springs, was educated in the public schools, and learned his trade
  from his father. When the latter failed in health William took charge of the
  business, as before stated. He carries on a general tailoring establishment,
  and is one of the most prominent men in his line in the town. In politics he
  is an ardent Republican, and in 1888 he served as a member of the Republican
  county central committee, also holding the office on various occasions since,
  and has been a delegate to town and county conventions several times. In 1898
  he was appointed postmaster of Boiling Springs. Fraternally, he is a member
  of Carlisle Lodge, No. 91, I. O. O. F. In every relation of life Mr. Drager
  has proved himself an honorable, upright, spirited man, and the people of his
  community have the most explicit trust and confidence in him and his ability.