Jacob Hagadorn

1826 - 1857  (31 years)

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• Name	Jacob Hagadorn  [1]
  Born	1826	New York, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Race	White  [1, 2]
  Name	Jacob Hagadorn  [1]
  Name	Jacob Hagerdom  [1]
  Reference Number	17954
  Residence	1850	Portage Prariie, Columbia, Wisconsin, USA   [1]
  	24 Age: 24; Farmer Occupation: Farmer; Industry: Agriculture; RealEstateValue: 500
  Residence	1854	Waseca, Minnesota, USA   [3]
  Died	13 Oct 1857	Waseca, Minnesota, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I17954	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Janette Tubbs,   b. 1833, New York, USA
  Married	4 Apr 1849	Columbia, Wisconsin, USA   [4]
  Children	1. Mary Etta Hagadorn,   b. 1850, Wisconsin ,   d. 1928  (Age 78 years)  [natural]
  Photos		Janet Tubbs and Jacob Hagadorn marriage record Date:4 Apr 1849
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F5802	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - 1826 - New York, USA Married - 4 Apr 1849 - Columbia, Wisconsin, USA Residence - 1854 - Waseca, Minnesota, USA Died - 13 Oct 1857 - Waseca, Minnesota, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		1850 United States Federal Census - Janette Tubbs The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Portage Prariie, Columbia, Wisconsin; Roll: 994; Page: 222b
  		1870 United States Federal Census - Jacob Hagadorn Year: 1870; Census Place: Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio; Roll: M593_1275; Page: 357B
  		Child's history of Waseca County, Minnesota from its first settlement in 1854 to the close of the year 1904 - Jacob Hagadorn Date:09/28/2023 14:52:49

  
  

  Histories

  The Murder of Jacob Hagadorn in 1857, "Child's History of Waseca County, Minnesota" by James E. Child (1905)

  
  

• Notes

  Source: Child's History of Waseca County, Minnesota by James E. Child (1905) Chapter XXI; transcribed by Mary Saggio. The First Murder This first general election, October 13, 1857, was the occasion of the first, as well as of the most unprovoked, murder ever committed in this county. Jacob Hagadorn and family and Peter Farrell and family lived neighbors to one another in the town of Iosco, near the village of Empire, where the fall election was held. So far as known, at least, these men were not only neighbors, but friendly toward each other. They both attended the election at Empire, and the testimony showed that Hagadorn did not drink much, but that Farrell was crazy drunk. The testimony taken before the grand jury the next day or two after the murder showed that there were two rival hotels, or public houses, in the village, and that each kept a bar well stocked with whisky. Whisky was cheap in those good old days, 25 cents a gallon—too cheap to be drugged—and yet men got drunk in those days the same as they do nowadays, and stabbed each other to the heart without any other cause than that they were intoxicated. It was at the time charged that one of the hotel men had plied Farrell and one or two others with liquor, during the afternoon, with the intention of getting up a drunken affray in the evening in which the other hotel man was to have been killed by accident. Whether there was any foundation for that theory or not, the fact was that a quarrel took place, and during the row Farrell killed Hagadorn with a large knife. Hon. Charles E. Flandreau, then associate justice of the Territorial supreme court, was then holding the first term of the district court for this county, and the grand jury, then in session, found indictments against Peter Farrell, as principal, and John H. Wheeler and Richard Toner, as accessories. Farrell was arrested and taken to Stillwater to be held for trial, but soon after made his escape and has never been brought to trial. It is said by some that he and his family are residents of Chicago, living under an assumed name. After the excitement was over and the facts and circumstances were more coolly considered, it was generally admitted that there was no evidence upon which to convict Wheeler or Toner, and after some two years they were discharged. There can be no doubt that that sad and bloody tragedy was the unpremeditated result of insane drunkenness on the part of Farrell and others that were equally drunk. Farrell, with great frankness, apparent sincerity, and unaffected sorrow declared that he had no cause for killing Hagadorn, that he never intended to injure him, and that he had not the faintest recollection of committing the crime with which he was charged and which he did actually commit in the presence of many eyewitnesses. This murder was a sad lesson for Waseca county in more ways than one. It kept the district court in. session several days, piled up large bills for witnesses, jurors, and officers at a time when our people were poor and out of money and when there was not a cent in the county treasury. These bills had to be met with borrowed money bearing interest at a rate of from sixty to seventy-two per cent per annum. It was a long time before the taxpayers had paid off the last of the expenses of that drunk.

  
  

• Sources

  [S699] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Portage Prariie, Columbia, Wisconsin; Roll: 994; Page: 222b. Record for Jacob Hayerdom https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8054&h=8955691&indiv=try 1850 United States Federal Census - Janette Tubbs The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Portage Prariie, Columbia, Wisconsin; Roll: 994; Page: 222b [S718] 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1870; Census Place: Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio; Roll: M593_1275; Page: 357B. Record for Ernest R Balding https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7163&h=38394901&indiv=try 1870 United States Federal Census - Jacob Hagadorn Year: 1870; Census Place: Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio; Roll: M593_1275; Page: 357B [S1200] Child's history of Waseca County, Minnesota : from its first settlement in 1854 to the close of the year 1904, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2005;). Record for https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=28688&h=634&indiv=try Child's history of Waseca County, Minnesota from its first settlement in 1854 to the close of the year 1904 - Jacob Hagadorn Date:09/28/2023 14:52:49 [S844] Wisconsin Marriages, Registration of Marriages. Janet Tubbs and Jacob Hagadorn marriage record Date:4 Apr 1849