Bagley, John H
merchant, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1832, in Hudson, N. Y. He received a common-school education; and in 1851 went to California and engaged in mining and other pursuits. He returned to New York and engaged in steamboating on the Hudson river, and settled at Catskill, N. Y., as a merchant and leather manufacturer. He served four terms as supervisor of the town; was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress; and also elected to the forty-eighth congress.