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Hager, John Sharpenstein

lawyer, jurist, United States senator , was born March 12, 1818, in Morris county, Morris county, N. J. He moved to California in 1849; and in 1852 was elected to the state senate, and served two years. In 1855 he was elected state judge for the district of San Francisco, and served six years. In 1865 and in 1867 he was elected to the state senate and served six years; and in 1871 was elected a regent of the university of California. He was elected to the United States senate in 1874-75 to fill a vacancy.

HAGER, MRS. LUCIE CAROLINE [GILSON], author, was born in 1853 in Massachusetts. She is a Massachusetts writer who has published Boxborough , a New England Town and Its People .