HAGEN
HAGXER
<;ame to the United States and by the invitation
•of Louis Agassiz was made assistant in entomol-
ogy at the Museum of comparative zoology, Cam-
bridge, Mass., and was professor of entomology
at Harvard, 1870-93. He was a member of the
American philosophical society and a fellow of
the Aoiericau academy of arts and sciences. The
honorary degree of Ph.D. was given him by the
University of Konigsberg in 1863, and that of
S.D. by Harvard in 188T. His numerous publi-
■cati^n^ include: Prussian Odontata (1834); and
Bibliothem Entomologica (18C2j. He died in Cam-
bridga, Mass., Nov. 9, 1893.
HAQEN, John Qeorge, educator, was born in Brageaz, Austria, March 6, 1847; son of Martin anl Teresa (Schick) Hagen. He received his edu- cation at the g3'mnasiam in Feldkirck, Austria, and at the Universities of Miinster and Bonn in G3rminy and took his course of ecclesia.stical studies in England, entering the Jesuit order in 1863. He was sent to the United States in 1880, and accepted the position of director of the ob- servatory of Georgetown university, Washington, in 18S8. He is the author of: Synopsis der Bohern Mathematik (4 vols. , 1891); Index Operitm Leonardi Euleri (1896) ; and Atlas Stellariim Variahilium (5 vols., 1899).
HAQER, Albert David, geologist, was born in Chester, Vt., Nov. 1, IsiT. He acquired his eJusatioa in the publij schools of his native towa. He was as.sistant state naturalist of Ver- moat, 1856-57; assista.iC state geologist with Prof. Edward Hitchcock. 1857-61 ; state geologist ani curator of the stats cabinet of natural his- tory, 1883-70; state geologist of Missouri. 1870-72, ail librarian of the Chicago historical society, 1S77-SS. In 1867 he was sent from Vermont as a co-nnissioner to the Paris exposition. In collabo- rj,tio.i with Professor Hitchcock, he is the author of Geology of Vermont (3 vols., 1861). He also pablishel the reports of the Vermont fish com- mit iioa (1886-69); Economic Geology of Vermont ; an. 1 report on the geological survey of Missouri (1S7L). He died in Chicago, 111., July 29, 1888. HAQER, Alva Licander, representative, was born near Jame.stown, N.Y., Oct. 29, 1850. son of AVilliam B. and Elmina (Baker) Hager. and grandson of AVilliam and Polly' Hager, and of S3th and Julia Baker. He removed with his father's family to Iowa in 1859 and settled iu Jackson county. In 1868 he engaged in farming near Langworthy, Jones county. He was graduate I from the Iowa City law school in 1875, practising in Greenfield. He was elected to the state senate in 1891, was chairman of the Iowa Republican state convention in 1892; and was a Republican representative from the 9th district of Iowa in the 53d, 54th and 55th con- gresses, 1893-99.
HAQER, John Sharpenstein, senator, was
born in Morris county, N.J., March 12, 1818. He
was graduated at the College of New Jersey,
A.B., 1836; A.M., 1839, and was admitted to the
bar in 1840. He practised in MorrLstown, N. J.,
till 1849, and then removed to California. He
was a state senator, 1852-54, and again, 1867-73 ;
was state district judge for San Francisco, 1855-
61, and in 1874 was elected to the U.S. senate to
complete the term of Senator Eugene Casserly,
resigned, serving from Feb. 9, 1874, to March 3,
1875. He was instrumental in founding the Uni-
versity of California in 1868, and in 1871 was
elected to .the board of regents. After his ser-
vice in tlie U.S. senate he was a member of the
state constitutional convention and of the San
Francisco charter convention, and collector of
customs for the port of San Francisco. 1885-89.
He received the Iionorary degree of LL. D. in 1879.
He died in San Francisco, Cal., in 1S<J7.
HAQERTY, Qeorge James, educator, was born at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, June 26, 1861; son of John and Eliza (McCollum) Hagerty; grandson of William and Mary (Bradford) Hagerty, and of Joseph and Mary (Colfax) McCollum, and a descendant of William Bradford, the colonial gov- ernor. He was graduated from the Ohio Wes- leyan university in 1885 ; was professor of Latin and Greek at Hedding college, Abingdon, 111., 1885-86, and superintendent of public schools at Abingdon, 1886-91. He removed to Kansas and became professor of Greek and Latin in the Kan- sas Wesleyan university in 1891 ; vice-president, 1895-99, was acting president of the university, 1897-99, and was elected president in 1899, with leave of absence for 1899-1900, for _travel in Europe.
HAQNER, Alexander Burton, jurist, was born in Washington, DC, July 13, 1826; son of Peter and Frances (Randall) Hagner, and a brother of Peter Valentine Hagner. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1845 ; was admitted to the bar at Annapolis, and began practice there in 1848. He was chairman of the committee on ways and means in the Mary- land legislature of 1854, to which he was elected as a Whig; was Independent Union candidate for representative in congress in 1858, and in 1874 was endorsed by the Republican convention in a district strongly Democratic, and in both in- stances unsuccessful. In 1850 he was judge ad- vocate of a naval court of inquiry to investigate the capture of Alvarado. In 1858 he married Louisa, youngest daughter of Randolph Harrison of Elk Hill, Goochland county, Va. In 1876 he served as judge advocate of a naval general court-martial convened in San Francisco for the trial of Pay-Inspector Spalding. In 1864 he was appointed special judge to try a large number of
