Henry Schell Hagert
Henry Schell Hagert was a United States lawyer, writer, and poet.Formative years
Hagert was born on May 2, 1826 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1842, he graduated from Central High School.
Admitted to the bar on May 8, 1847, he soon became solicitor for the board of guardians of the poor. After the consolidation of the city in 1854, he was appointed assistant city solicitor, as which he drafted many important city ordinances.
Hagert then served as assistant district attorney in 1856–1857, 1868–1871, and 1875–1878, and as district attorney in 1878–1881. He was especially distinguished as a nisi prius lawyer.
In early life he contributed prose and poetry to periodicals. After his death, a volume of his poems, with a memoir by Charles Augustus Lagen, was printed privately.He died in Philadelphia, where he was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery.Works
- Henry S. Hagert, Henry S. Hagert Memorial: Poems and Verses, with sketch of his life.
