Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Hagey, George 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

George Hagey, a jeweler by trade, but now retired from business, and a 
resident on the corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets, Sterling, was born in 
Montgomery Co., Pa., Feb. 14, 1808. His parents were Jacob and Elizabeth 
(Garehart) Hagey, who lived and died in their native State, Pennsylvania. Mr. 
George Hagey received in his youth a limited education, remaining at his 
parental home until of age and learning the jewelry trade of his father. He 
then engaged in business for himself, in his native county, for two years, and 
then for 17 years at Trappe, in the same county. Then he purchased a farm of 
111 acres in Bucks County, that State, and resided upon it six years. Selling 
out at the expiration of that time, he came to Sterling, this county, in 1855, 
engaging in the jewelry business and following it until 1881. He then sold his 
stock and interest in the business and has since lived in quiet retirement. In 
his religious relations he belongs to the New Mennonites. He was married in 
October, 1830, to Sarah Myers, a native of Pennsylvania, and they had seven 
children, three of whom are living, namely, Jacob M., William H. H. and 
Elizabeth. Jacob M. married Sophina Briggs, a native of the State of New York, 
and their children are Maud, Blanch and John. Wm. H. H. married Emily M. 
Humphrey, a native of New York, and they are the parents of Emma J. and 
Charles H. Elizabeth became the wife of Wm. W. Pratt, of Kansas, and the 
mother of Julius B., George H., Mary L., Emma J. and Zella. Mrs. Higey died in 
1849, and Mr. H., in 1851, married Susan Pool, a native of Pennsylvania. By 
this marriage one daughter has been born, Emma L., who married Walter C. G. 
Sackett in 1878, and has one son, Walter G. Abraham G., the second son of Mr. 
George Hagey, died in 1878. He married Agnes Lyle, a native of Scotland, and 
had four children,—George, Jamie, Fannie and John.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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