JOHN HAGEN, was born in Germany January 1, 1830, and is the youngest of three children born to John and Margaret (Holte) Hagen. John Hagen, Sr., was a sawyer in the old country ; in 1859, be came to America and resided with our subject until his death, April 16, 1860. John Ha en, Jr., was employed at farming in Germany until July, 1854, when he and wife came to America, locating first at Bradford, or Monon, this county, afterward moving to Reynolds. For the first two years be was employed as a laborer on the N. A. R. R., and for the following fifteen years as foreman. In 1870, he bought eighty acres of wild land in this township, to which he has since added forty acres and put all in a good state of cultivation. June 7, 1854, he married Sophia Schrader, a native of Germany, who has borne him nine children, of whom four are yet living- Ernestine J., Eliza M., Emma L. and Arnelia H. In politics, Mr. Hagen is a Democrat, and both he and wife are members of the Lutheran Church.

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