Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Edward C. HAGAR, attorney at law (firm of Hagar & Flanders), Joliet; was born in Plainfield, 
Will Co., IL, April 19, 1846; be is the son of Jonathan and Catharine (GOODHUE) HAGAR; his 
father came from Cleveland, Ohio, and settled in Plainfield in 1835; he was the first merchant 
in that town; his mother is a daughter of Deacon Ezra GOODHUE, and came to Plainfield with her 
father's family in 1834. Mr. HAGAR was educated at the Northwestern Evangelical College in his 
native town graduating in 1867; in 1870 he entered the Law Department of the University of 
Michigan, completing his course and graduating in the spring of 1872; he was admitted to the 
bar in Michigan in April, 1872, and by the Supreme Court of Illinois in June of the same year. 
In November, 1872, he was elected State's Attorney, and in December following, he formed a law 
partnership with James R. FLANDERS, which still continues; he held the office of State's 
Attorney four years. He was married March 24,1875, to Miss Hattie C. GAGER, a native of Warren, 
Ohio, and has one child - Elmer G.