MACAU HAGAR. Boston and resumed his practice, which was largely in criminal cases. In 1N71, the construction of the Bucks- port & Bangor Railroad being contem- plated, he returned to Bucksport and con- tinued in practice there for about ten years, during which period of time he was engaged as counsel in some of the most important 1 ases tried in Maine, and established his reputation as an accomplished jurist and eloquent advocate, and earned for himself a leading position amongthe ablest men at the Maine bar. Me was for several years a director, and acted as counsel for the 11. & B. R. Co. In January, i88r, Mr. Hadlock moved to Portland, where he resided until April, 1887 ; and in the number anil importance of the cases in which he was retained while in Portland, he maintained his high rank as a jurist and advocate. He now resides in Boston, in the practice of his profession, which includes cases in the state and federal courts of Maine, Massachusetts, and New York, and in the supreme court of the United States. January 26, 1865, Mr. Hadlock married Alexene L. Goodell, of Searsport, Maine, by whom he has had three children, two of whom are now living: Inez Blanche and Webster Deming Hadlock. His eldest son, Harvey Deming Hadlock, Jr., a youth of rare promise of some fifteen years, acci- dentally shot himself while handling a revolver, on the 23d clay of January, 18S6. HAGAR, Daniel Barnard, son of Isaac and Eunice (Stedmaa) H agar, was born in Newton Lower Falls, Middlesex county, April 22, 1820. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Water- town. His early educational training was se- cured in the village district school and in the private academy of Seth Davis, in West New ton, who lived to the age of one hundred years, lie prepared for college in Newton, chiefly under private tutors, and entering Union College, was gradu- ated in the class of 1843. When a boy he spent several years in a paper mill in his native village, and was later a clerk in a Boston dry-goods store two years. While connected with college he taught in the academy at Schuylerville, N. Y., and at Kingston, N. Y. Mr. Hagar was Phi Beta Kappa, A. B., and commencement orator in 1843 ; A. M., 1846; Ph. D., 187 1 — degrees conferred by Union College — principal of academy, Canajoharie, N. Y., five years — iS44-'48 inclusive ; Norwich Academy, N. Y., iS4,S-"49 ; Eliot high school, Jamaica Plain, i849~'65 ; and of the state normal school, Salem, since 1865. He was also superintendent of schools, Canajoharie, X. Y, 1846 to '48 ; member of the school board, Salem, 1S66 to '75 ; president of Montgomery County (N. Y.) Teachers' Association, 1846 ; of the Nor- folk County Teachers' Association, 1853 and '54 ; of the Massachusetts State Teachers' Association, 1856 anil '58; of the American Institute of Instruction. i860 and '<> 1 ; of the American Normal Association, 1858 ; of the National Teach- ers' Association, 187 1 ; of the National DANIEL B. HAGAR Council of Education, 1SS5 and '86 ; pres- ident of the Y. M. C. A. of Salem ; vice- president of Essex Institute, Salem ; Unit- ed States presidential elector for Massa- chusetts, 1884; editor of "Massachusetts Teacher," 1N52 to '56 anil 1865 to '70 ; author of "An Abstract of the Proceed- ings of the Massachusetts Teachers' Asso- ciation from 1845 to 1880 ;" of numerous educational addresses, and of a series of mathematical text-books (Philadelphia, 1871). Dr. Hagar is, and has been for a long series of years, one of the strong pillars in the temple of our state and national edu- cation. He has been tempted to leave
