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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY IOWA

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1912

Transcribed by Sharon Elijah August 20, 2020

Frank Hagaman, who is actively engaged in farming at Glidden, has made his home in Carroll county for thirty-nine years, although he had become seven years previously a resident of Iowa. He is a native of Seneca county, Ohio, born January 24, 1847, a son of Charles and Harriet (Perkins) Hagaman, the former of whom was born in New York and the latter in New Jersey. The father moved to Ohio when a young man and later to the pineries of Michigan. Subsequently he went to La Salle county, Illinois, and later to Eureka in the same state. In 1865 he arrived in Iowa and took up his residence in Wapello county where he died in March of the year following, having arrived at the age of forty-four years. His wife still survives and is living with a son, Lester, at Glidden. She is a member of the Methodist church but her husband was not identified with any religious denomination although he was a believer in Christianity and a reader of the Bible. They had six children, three of whom are now living: Frank; Le Roy C., of Greene county, Iowa; and Lester J., of Glidden. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Cornelius Hagaman, a native of New York and by occupation a farmer. He died in La Salle county, Illinois, in 1868. He was born in 1794 and his wife, Harriet Hagaman, was born in 1800 and died in 1871. There were eight children in their family, six of whom grew to maturity, George, Charles, Nancy, Joseph, Maria and Eunice. Hoel Perkins, the maternal grandfather, was born in 1794 in New Jersey and his wife, Mary Perkins, was born in 1795. She died in 1851 in Ohio. He later came to Iowa and spent the remainder of his days with a son, Russell Perkins, at Sisley Grove, Linn county. He was the father of ten children, Laura, Sallie, Jesse, Lucy, Harriet, Harmon, Russell, Amos, Harlow and Ward.

Frank Hagaman possesses the distinction of having been reared in three states—Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. In 1865, at the age of eighteen, he came to Iowa and in 1872 he arrived in Carroll county and engaged in farming in Glidden township for four years. He then moved to Glidden and followed draying for more than twenty years. He is now engaged in farming and also in teaming. He owns a well improved place of fifty-nine acres at the southeast corner of the township corporation and as a result of his industry is financially in favorable circumstances.

On the 14th day of March, 1869, Mr. Hagaman was married to Miss Flora S. Freese, of Sisley Grove, a daughter of George W. and Susanna (Williams) Freese, and to them four children have been born: Charles, a night watchman, residing in Glidden, who married Luetta Meredith Riffenbery and has four children, William Francis, Charles Edward, Helen Elizabeth and Mary Hilda; Nellie, who married Charles R. Ennis, of Glidden, and has one son, Verne Clifford; and Clara and George, both of whom are living at home. Mr. and Mrs. Hagaman have an adopted daughter, Mary May Jones Hagaman, their niece, a daughter of Joseph Henry and Carrie B. (Freese) Jones.

Mrs. Flora S. Hagaman was born in Seneca county, Ohio, December 9, 1851. Her father was born in Pennsylvania and her mother in Ohio. They came to Iowa in 1852 and took up their residence seven miles west of Cedar Rapids, in Linn county, at Sisley Grove, where the father settled upon government land and engaged in farming. Later he sold his place and moved to Courtland, Kansas, where he died in 1895, at the age of seventy-five years. His wife passed away in 1900, being then seventy-two years of age. Both were earnest Christians, holding membership in the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, and Mr. Freese was a class leader for a long period. They were the parents of nine children: Charity D., Amos M., Flora S., Emma J., Oliver P., George B., John H., who died in infancy, Margaret H. and Carrie B. Martin Freese, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Hagaman, was born in Pennsylvania in 1782, and his wife, Deborah (McEwan) Freese, was born in 1785. She died at the age of fifty-one years, having become the mother of six children, Moses, Margaret, John, William, James and George W. Mrs. Hagaman’s maternal grandfather, Zachariah Williams, married Mrs. Susanna Wolfe, whose maiden name was Susanna Bretz. She had been twice previously married, her first husband having been Solomon Hiestant, and her second Samuel Wolfe. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Susanna, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Sarah Ann.

In politics Mr. Hagaman is an adherent of the republican party and is an earnest believer in its principles. He has served very acceptably several times as member of the city council but he is a modest man and has never urgently sought public office. He has always been governed by a worthy ambition to perform his duty to his family and to the community, and the general esteem in which he is held is evidence that his efforts have not been in vain.

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