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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Charles Everette HAGAMAN 

Transcribed exactly according to the original complete text by Alice Stipak. 

[Surnames: HAGAMAN, SCHLEICH, SWARTZ] 

[p. 896] 

    
HAGAMAN, Charles E., who is one of the most stirring, wide-awake and promising young farmers in Fairview Township, Fulton County, Ill., is a native of that township, where he was born November 13, 1882* [sic, correction: 1881], a son of John B. and Anna (Swartz) Hagaman, who were Pennsylvanians* by birth, and members of very prominent families in that State. After their removal to Illinois they were equally prominent in both social and religious circles. John B. Hagaman was a farmer by occupation, in which pursuit his industry, frugality and painstaking diligence gained for him deserved success. He located in Fulton County at an early period, and purchased 107 acres of land in Fairview Township, which his son, Charles E., now cultivates. He was a man of high character, conspicuously identified with all local enterprises for the promotion of the public welfare, and influential in local political affairs. 
    
Charles E. Hagaman made diligent use, in early youth, of the opportunities for mental training afforded by the district schools in the neighborhood of his home, and assisted his father in the work of the farm. Before attaining his majority he was engaged in farming on his own responsibility and since he reached the age of nineteen years has cultivated 293 acres of land, besides putting some improvements on the homestead property. His attention is devoted chiefly to general farming. He has thus far met with invariable success and bids fair to become one of the most prominent farmers of Fulton County. 
    
On February 18, 1893* [sic, correction: January 27, 1904], Mr. Hagaman was united in marriage, in Fairview Township, with Ada Schleich, a native of that township, where she was born August 25, 1881* [sic, correction: January 9, 1879], and enjoyed the benefits of the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Hagaman have become the parents of one child, named Leonard. 
    
In politics the subject of this sketch is in hearty accord with the principles of the Republican party, and religiously he adopts the creed of the Lutheran Church. He has a wide acquaintance throughout Fulton County and is very popular with all who know him. 

*Note: Charles Everette Hagaman was a grandson of Nicholas L. Hagaman, the original immigrant of this immediate family who went to Fulton Co. at the urging of his second wife's family who had moved there earlier in the century from Somerset County, NJ. Charles E. Hagaman and Ada Schleich were married January 27, 1904 not February 18, 1893, when the age of the couple would have been about 12 and 13 years. Also Ada was born January 9, 1879 (the date on her social security application), not August 25, 1881. She died in her mid-90s in 1972. Charles was born November 18, 1881 not 1882. Also John B. Hagaman, who came to Fulton when he was 12, was not a native of Pennsylvania but went directly from Lamington, Somerset County, NJ with his father, stepmother and two sisters.-- Pamelyn Bush