Hagar, George J
journalist, author, was born in 1847, in Newark, N. J. , N. J.
He was news editor of Frank Leslie's Il- Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper for fifteen years. He contributed to Appleton's Encyclopædia of American Biography in 1886 and 1888; and 1888; was associate editor of the Columbian En- Columbian Encyclopædia from 1888 to 1893; and one of the editorial revisers of Johnson's Uni- Johnson's Universal Encyclopædia from 1893 to 1895.
He compiled the greater part of The Hisof The History of the United States in Chronological Order; edited The Columbian Annual for 1892; compiled the Living Topics Cyclopædia in 1886; and since 1886 has conhas contributed American obituaries and other articles in Appleton's Annual Encyclopædia.