HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp.  1311-12.   Boyd County.

EDGAR BROWNE HAGER.  One of the most accomplished and cultured men that
ever graced the Kentucky bar, Edgar Browne Hager, of Ashland, Boyd county,
has won distinguished prestige during his professional career, his vigorous
mentality, scholarly attainments and comprehensive knowledge of the law
winning for him an enviable record.  A thorough master of the legal rules
and rulings, his powers of expression are broad, keen and clear, while his
judgment is clear and impartial, and his integrity unimpeachable.  He was
born at Paintsville, Johnson county, Kentucky, December 7, 1868, a son of
Samuel Patton Hager, in whose sketch on another page of this work further
parental and ancestral history may be found.
     Obtaining the rudiments of his education in the public schools of
that county continued his studies for a few years, in 1884 becoming a
student at the Beech Grove Academy.  Going to Millersburg, Kentucky, in
September, 1885, he matriculated at the Kentucky Weslyan College, from
which he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in June 1888.  During the
following fall and spring Mr. Hager served as superintendent of the city
schools of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, a position that he resigned to take up
the study of law, for which he was well adapted by nature and talents.
Entering the Boston University Law School, in Boston, Massachusetts in
September, 1889, he pursued the full course of study, and in June, 1891,
was graduated from that institution with the degree of LL. B.  In the
same month he was honored by his old alma mater, the Kentucky Wesleyan
College, which conferred upon him the degree of A. M.
     Admitted to the Kentucky bar in August, 1891, Mr. Hager immediately
began the practice of his profession in Ashland, Kentucky, and has since
made rapid strides in his career, success having been his from the start.
Becoming general counsel for the F. G. Oxley Stave Company in January,
1893, he was located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, until June, 1894, when he
resigned the position and returned to Ashland, which has since been his
home.  His legal skill and ability being already known and widely
recognized, he soon controlled altogether the largest and best business
of any lawyer in the vicinity, and during his practice here has been
employed on one side or the other with nearly every criminal case of
importance in Boyd county.  Talented and cultured, as a speaker Mr. Hager
represents the best fruit of the higher civilization, being eloquent,
logical and forceful in his utterances, and one to whom it is a pleasure
and profit to listen.
     Mr. Hager married, June 21, 1898, Lucie Vinson Prichard, a Kentucky
belle, the beautiful daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Prichard, of
Louisa, Kentucky.  The union was a most happy and congenial one; but in
the zenith of the wedded happiness the angel of death invaded their
household, on January 20, 1902, bearing Mrs. Hager to the realms beyond.
She left to her husband two bright and charming children, namely: Edgar
Browne Hager, Jr., born December 2, 1899; and Virginia Patton Hager,
born March 23, 1901.
     A sound Democrat in his political affiliations, Mr. Hager takes an
abiding interest in local, county, state and national affairs, and is one
of the finest political orators and one of the best campaigners in all
Kentucky.
     Prominent in business, fraternal and social life of the community
in which he resides, Mr. Hager is widely known, and he has hosts of
friends throughout the state.  He is a Mason of high degree, and is a
prominent member of the Elks.  He is past master of Poage Lodge, No. 324,
F. & A. M.; past high priest of Apperson Chapter, No. 81, R. A. M.; past
commander of Ashland Commandery, No. 28, K. T.; past potentate of El Hasa
Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., of which he has recently been elected as imperial
representative of the Imperial Council of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
which will meet in Rochester, New York, in July, 1911.  He is likewise
past exalted ruler of Ashland Lodge, No. 350, B.P.O.E.
     Endowed with a splendid physique and a frank, open countenance, Mr.
Hager commands attention wherever he goes; and by his genial nature and
his cordial and magnetic personality, wins friends among all classes of
people.  His natural endowments are conceded by all, and there is no
more adroit and skillful lawyer in the state, and no more powerful and
eloquent advocate in the state than he.

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