Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Daggett, Edgar 1843 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

EDGAR DAGGETT.
Edgar Daggett, engaged in the livery, transfer, undertaking and storage business
in Ottumwa, was born in New York, October 9, 1843, and comes of New England
ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Ebenezer Daggett, was born at Needham,
Massachusetts, in 1762, and died in 1845. His wife, Jeanette Patterson, a native
of Enfield, Massachusetts, was born in 1778 and passed away in 1859. It was in
Enfield that Ebenezer Daggett, father of Edgar Daggett, was born in 1798. He
became a manufacturer, devoting his life to pursuits of that character. He died
in 1859, while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Pope, passed away in
Ottumwa in 1862, at the age of sixty-one years, her birth having occurred in 1801.

Edgar Daggett is indebted to the public-school system of New York for the
educational privileges which he enjoyed during his youthful days. In early
manhood he made his way westward to Wapello county and began clerking in Ottumwa
for the firm of Daggett & Edgerly, the senior partner being his brother. They
were proprietors of a hardware store, in which Edgar Daggett remained for six
years, during which time he carefully saved his earnings until his capital was
sufficient to enable him to embark in the dairy business on his own account. He
continued in that line until 1900 and something of the growth of his patronage
is indicated in the fact that, while he started with six cows, ere he closed out
his business he had one hundred and thirty-five cows. He conducted both a retail
and wholesale business, running three wagons. After closing out he embarked in
the livery, transfer, undertaking and storage business and still conducts all
these. Since its organization the business has grown year by year, having
increased at least fourfold, and he now employs thirty-five people. He has never
been afraid of work. Indolence and idleness are utterly foreign to his nature,
and through his determination and unflagging energy he has reached success.

On the 2d of March, 1865, Mr. Daggett was united in marriage to Miss Helen
Hammond, who was born in Wapello county, in December, 1844, a daughter of
Harrison and Eliza (Baker) Hammond, the former a mill man before the roller
system of flour manufacture was introduced. Mr. and Mrs. Daggett have become
parents of three sons: Henry and Ernest Lee, who are associated with their
father in business; and Frank. The eldest married Sarah Coffin and they had one
child, Helen. Following the death of the mother Henry Daggett wedded Etta Jones
and to this union has been born a daughter, Dorothy. Ernest Lee married Anna
Doty and has two children: Doty and Mary. Frank married Leora Sprague and has
one child, Jeannette. The family are members of the Methodist church, and Mr.
Daggett belongs also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, while his
political allegiance is given to the republican party. Mr. Daggett deserves much
credit for what he has accomplished, for his success is attributable entirely to
his own efforts. Gradually he has worked his way upward, and what he has
undertaken he has accomplished. He is now at the head of an important and
growing business, and the future seems to hold out promises of still greater
success.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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