JOHN CAMPBELL HAGAN,
Born in the City of Richmond, December 25, 1857, was educated in the
Richmond schools and at Georgetown College, D. C. After leaving college
he studied law for sixteen months with his uncle, P. H. Hagan, Esq.,
of Scott county, Virginia, then returned to Richmond and entered the
office of the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad. He remained there
eighteen months, then accepted a position with the Chesapeake & Ohio
road at Charlottesville, Virginia, for about the same period, then began
business as manufacturers agent for a firm of shoe manufacturers of
Boston, Massachusetts, and since that time has represented various
manufacturers of that locality throughout the South.
John Hagan, jr., father of John Campbell, was born in County Tyrone,
Ireland, February 2, 1826, a son of John Hagan and Ellen Campbell,
his wife, of the same place. He settled in Virginia October 17,
1849, served through the war between the States in the Confederate
States army, and died on October 17, 1874. The mother of John
Campbell Hagan, born in Richmond, Virginia, April 6, 1828, is Mary
Catharine, daughter of Florence Downey and Mary C. Lynel, his wife.
In Richmond, September 14, 1887, Mr. Hagan married Alice May
Nipe, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a daughter of
James Wm. Nipe, who was born in Berkeley county, (now) West Virginia,
March 10, 1829, a son of George Nipe and Mary Culp, his wife,
and died in Baltimore, March 11, 1871. Her mother, born in Lynchburg,
Virginia, August 4, 1841, is Emma J., daughter of Wm. Addison
Bennett of Hanover county, Virginia, and Eliza J. Morton, his wife, of
Lynchburg.
