Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Wagener, Charles H. January 23, 1835 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

CHARLES H. WAGENER, druggist, Big Rapids, was born at Penn Yan, N. Y., Jan. 
23, 1835; a son of David and 

Maria (West) Wagener.  His father was a hotel-keeper, and died when he was but 
two yers old.  He attended 

school until the age of 14, when he procured a situation as clerk in a drug 
store, and after two years 

returned to school.  He completed his education in three years, and again 
became a clerk in a drug store in 

Penn Yan, where he remained seven years.  In February, 1864, he went to 
Austin, Nevada, and bought a drug 

store of his brother, where he transacted business four years, and then 
returned to Penn Yan.  In February, 

1868, he settled in Big Rapids and founded his present business.  He handles a 
full line of drugs and all 

items common to similar establishments, patent medicines, etc.  In April 1869, 
his store was burned, with a 

total loss of $3,500.  He had secured no insurance.  Mr. Wagener is a 
Freemason, and a member of the Knights 

of Honor, and is Vice-President and Director of the Northern National Bank.  
He was married May 7, 1861, in 

Penn Yan, to Patience M. Hunt, born in Milo, Yates Co., N. Y., Jan. 25, 1838.  
Josephine M., their eldest 

child, was born in Penn Yan, May 15, 1862, and Charles S. was born in Big 
Rapids, March 18, 1879.

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