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Henry Schell Hagert

(1826-1885)
Philadelphia



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Henry S. Hagert, Henry S. Hagert Memorial: Poems and Verses, with Sketch of His Life ([Philadelphia]: Press of J.B. Lippincott Company, 1886)(memoir by Charles Augustus Lagen)

"A noted nisi prius lawyer of Philadelphia."

[Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors 162 (Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899)]

Henry S. Hagert was born in Philadelphia and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1847, holding various legal offices in that city, including district attorney.]

[See, John Foster Kirk, Allibone's Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors 737 (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1891)]

Henry Schell Hagert
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Henry S. Hagert
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Henry S. Hagert, Henry S. Hagert Memorial: Poems and Verses, with sketch of his life ([Philadelphia]: Press of J.B. Lippincott Company, 1886)(memoir by Charles Augustus Lagen) [online text]