Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Boyd County

Samuel P. Hager was born in Floyd, now Johnson County, Ky., May 22, 1834,
and is a son of Daniel and Violet (Porter) Hager, natives respectively of
Amherst County, Va., and Russell County, Va.  John Hager, father of Daniel,
came from Hesse Cassel during the war of the Revolution, was a soldier under
Gen. Sumter, settled and married in Amherst County, Va., moved from there to
Kentucky, settled at the mouth of Beaver, and afterward on Sandy River,
opposite the mouth of John's Creek, about 1808, and died at the latter
place.  Daniel Hager was born November 15, 1801, in Amherst County, Va.,
came to Kentucky with his father, and was married in 1821.  He was a
Brigadier General of State Militia in eastern Kentucky, and in 1845 and 1846
represented Johnson and Floyd Counties in the Kentucky Legislature.  He had
been a farmer and merchant, and reared a family of twelve children, three of
whom are now dead, the eldest, John, having been killed in the late civil
war, under Humphrey Marshall.  Gen. Hager died July 5, 1887, aged eighty-six
years.  Samuel P. Hager was reared on the home farm, but began his business
life in 1856 as a merchant at Paintsville, Ky., but during the recent war
engaged in steamboating on the Big Sandy, in conjunction with his brother
Henry.  At the close of the war he resumed mercantile pursuits at
Paintsville, Ky., where he is still interested.  He moved to Ashland, Ky.,
in 1881, and is now in the insurance business.  November 21, 1860, he
married Miss Angie Brown, daughter of Thomas S. Brown, ex-county court
judge.  To this marriage have been born four children, viz: William C., a
merchant at Ashland; Harry, C.H. & D. Railroad, in Cincinnati; Edgar and
John are receiving collegiate education at K.W. College, Millersburg, Ky.

Hager Porter Sumter Brown Marshall 
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Amherst-VA Johnson-KY Floyd-KY 
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