Henry Schell Hagert

Henry Schell Hagert (/ˈheɪɡərt/; May 2, 1826 – December 18, 1885) was a United States lawyer, writer, and poet.^[1]

Formative years

Hagert was born on May 2, 1826 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1842, he graduated from Central High School.

Admitted to the bar on May 8, 1847, he soon became solicitor for the board of guardians of the poor. After the consolidation of the city in 1854, he was appointed assistant city solicitor, as which he drafted many important city ordinances.

Hagert then served as assistant district attorney in 1856–1857, 1868–1871, and 1875–1878, and as district attorney in 1878–1881. He was especially distinguished as a nisi prius lawyer.

In early life he contributed prose and poetry to periodicals. After his death, a volume of his poems, with a memoir by Charles Augustus Lagen, was printed privately (see below).

Death and interment

He died in Philadelphia, where he was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Works

Henry S. Hagert, Henry S. Hagert Memorial: Poems and Verses, with sketch of his life (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1886).

References

^ *This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Hagert, Henry Schell" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

External links

Henry Schell Hagert at Lawyers and Poetry
Google Book's Archive Poems and Verses, with Sketch of His Life (1886)

[1] *This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Hagert, Henry Schell" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

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