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Ed C. Hagan January 8, 1824 - 
Nelson County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th ed., 1886

ED C. HAGAN was born January 8, 1824, and is a
son of Sidney and Nancy (Cecil) Hagan, who had born to them three sons and 
five daughters.  Sidney Hagan was born in 1800, one mile east of New Hope, was 
reared a farmer and had 700 acres of land; he was also a large holder of slave 
property; was a clerk in his young days, also carried on distilling for forty 
years.  He has lived in Marion County since 1823, and served several times as 
magistrate. He was a son of Clem Hagan and Millie
(Miles) Hagan, who were natives of Maryland and Virginia respectively, and 
were among the first settlers on Pottinger's Creek. Clem Hagan was a farmer 
and distiller, and when but a small boy he lost his parents, who were of Irish 
descent. Mrs. Nancy Hagan was a daughter of James and Susan Hammett, who were 
natives of Cecil County, Md., and raised a family of eight children. Ed. C. 
Hagan, who was born in the west part of Marion County, was raised on a farm 
and received a fair English education; he spent one year in St. Mary's 
College, taught in the common schools a few terms, and commenced the battle of 
life for himself at the age of eighteen years. September 2, 1861, he enlisted 
in Company B, Ninth Kentucky Confederate Infantry, participated in the battles 
of Shiloh and Stone River, and in fact was in all engagements in which the 
regiments took part except Baton Rouge. At the battle at Jonesboro, Ga., he 
lost his right arm, was captured and sent to the hospital, where he remained 
for eight months; was at Camp Chase for four 
months, when he was released at the close of the war in June, 1865. He then 
returned to his home and engaged in stock trading two years, then engaged in 
general farming for seven years. In 1874 he commended selling goods, which he 
continued four years, after which he returned to farming. In November, 1884, 
he returned to the dry goods business at New Hope where he is now engaged; he 
as also engaged for four years in distilling. October 7, 1879, he married Anna 
Parolee Barry, daughter of Dr. J. J. and Frances Felicia Barry of New Haven, 
Ky. Dr. Barry was born in County Cork, Ireland, came to Kentucky at the age of 
sixteen, graduated in medicine in Louisville, was the author of several 
religious and scientific works; understood seven different languages, lived 
and died a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Mrs. Barry was the daughter of 
the Rev. Samuel Jesse of Shelby County, Ky., and is a convert to the Catholic 
Church; her parents were born in Virginia. To Mr. Hagan's marriage four 
children were born: Joseph S. (deceased), Frank Miles, Augustine Bradford 
(deceased), and John Sidney. Mr. and Mrs. Hagan are members of the Roman 
Catholic Church. Mr. Hagan cast his first presidential vote for James Buchanan.



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