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WILLIAM A. HAGAR, of Hagar, Reynolds & Hottel, merchants and grain dealers, post-office Sarcoxie, was born in Jasper county, Mo., May 20, 1846. His father, Anthony Hagar, was a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, and his mother was a native of Missouri. Our subject was reared on a farm, and educated in the common schools. He engaged in farming until 1861, and then went to Douglass county, Ill., and in 1865 enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Illinois Infantry, serving until the close of the war, and was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., and discharged at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ill., in October, 1865. He returned to Jasper county and engaged in farming until 1872, when he commenced handling stock and grain, and engaged in his present business in March, 1881, with Messrs. Reynolds & Hottel. Mr. Hagar was married in this county, Oct. 2, 1866, to Miss Sarah E., daughter of Laban and Margaret A. Fullerton, of Sarcoxie township. Mrs. Hagar was born Sept, 9, 1846. From this union there are seven children: Laura F., J. P., Stephen T., Charles, Oscar, Earl, and an infant. Mr. Hagar is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity, Sarcoxie Lodge, 248.