First wife was Annetta "Nettie" Halberg. She had three children with him before dying in 1897. His second wife was Sophie Carsten. She had two children with him but only one survived.
WILLIAM C. HAGEN A well-to-do and highly-respected rancher who, after many years of toil and varying prosperity, enjoys the fruits of a well spent life, is William C. Hagen, the proud father of two sons who have loyally served in the World War, and two daughters, one a nurse, the other already beginning to attain distinction as a pianist.
He owns a ranch of fifteen acres four miles northeast of Fowler, at the corner of Washington Avenue and the Giffen road, and there he lives with his second wife, in a happy household glad to do its own work.
Born in Pomerania, Prussia, November 9, 1852, the son of Carl Hagen, who had married Minnie Hopp, William C. was the oldest boy and the second in the order of birth of a family of nine children. His father was a stone-cutter, who made curbs and the paving for highways. He attended the public schools of his Fatherland, and was brought up in the Lutheran Church. When only sixteen years of age, he bade good-bye to his parents and relatives and sailed from Bremerhafen on the old sailing ship, "George and John ;" and after forty-seven days on the ocean, he landed at Castle Garden in New York, July 5, 1868, and almost at once proceeded westward to Chicago, where he had relations.
For a while he stopped with his uncle. John Hopp, a tailor * on North Clark Street, in that city, and very gladly worked at anything he could find to do. After he learned the English language, he became a brakeman on the Michigan Central and later, he "broke" on various roads until he went to Oregon in 1882, where he settled down as a farm laborer in Umatilla County. Two years of residence in Oregon, however, and in 1884 he came to Fresno County, where he began to work by the month.
Here in 1891 Mr. Hagen was married to Miss Nettie Halburg. a native of Norway. Mrs. Hagen died in 1897, the mother of three children. Ernest served as a marine in the world war (WWI): Chester is in the artillery in France; and Martha served as a trained nurse in the Letterman Hospital in San Francisco.
Mr. Hagen's second marriage occurred in 1900. when he chose Miss Sophie Carston as his bride: she also was born in Germany, and they have one child, Minnie, the talented musician. After his first marriage, Mr. Hagen worked for eleven years on rented land in the Oleander district. In 1918 he came to his present holding, where his house now stands, and bought fifteen acres of unimproved land, which he soon set out to vines and planted to alfalfa. By a subsequent purchase, he bought twenty acres more, and still later he added another twenty acres, until he had fifty-five acres, all in bearing trees and vines. For a man who had only sixty dollars to his name when he was married, this is a most creditable showing. When his sons enlisted in the regular army, Mr. Hagen found that he was endeavoring to manage more than he could well attend to and he sold all but fifteen acres. Besides vigorously supporting the cooperative programs of such associations as those for bettering the interests of the raisin and the peach growlers, and thereby helping to advance the state of husbandry in California, Mr. Hagen has done his duty as a citizen, serving on juries and otherwise performing what he was called upon to do for the benefit of the Community at large. Since 1895 he has been a member of Court Fowler Independent Order of Foresters. He is a naturalized American citizen, and in political matters very properly holds himself an Independent.
WILLIAM C. HAGEN A well-to-do and highly-respected rancher who, after many years of toil and varying prosperity, enjoys the fruits of a well spent life, is William C. Hagen, the proud father of two sons who have loyally served in the World War, and two daughters, one a nurse, the other already beginning to attain distinction as a pianist.
He owns a ranch of fifteen acres four miles northeast of Fowler, at the corner of Washington Avenue and the Giffen road, and there he lives with his second wife, in a happy household glad to do its own work.
Born in Pomerania, Prussia, November 9, 1852, the son of Carl Hagen, who had married Minnie Hopp, William C. was the oldest boy and the second in the order of birth of a family of nine children. His father was a stone-cutter, who made curbs and the paving for highways. He attended the public schools of his Fatherland, and was brought up in the Lutheran Church. When only sixteen years of age, he bade good-bye to his parents and relatives and sailed from Bremerhafen on the old sailing ship, "George and John ;" and after forty-seven days on the ocean, he landed at Castle Garden in New York, July 5, 1868, and almost at once proceeded westward to Chicago, where he had relations.
For a while he stopped with his uncle. John Hopp, a tailor * on North Clark Street, in that city, and very gladly worked at anything he could find to do. After he learned the English language, he became a brakeman on the Michigan Central and later, he "broke" on various roads until he went to Oregon in 1882, where he settled down as a farm laborer in Umatilla County. Two years of residence in Oregon, however, and in 1884 he came to Fresno County, where he began to work by the month.
Here in 1891 Mr. Hagen was married to Miss Nettie Halburg. a native of Norway. Mrs. Hagen died in 1897, the mother of three children. Ernest served as a marine in the world war (WWI): Chester is in the artillery in France; and Martha served as a trained nurse in the Letterman Hospital in San Francisco.
Mr. Hagen's second marriage occurred in 1900. when he chose Miss Sophie Carston as his bride: she also was born in Germany, and they have one child, Minnie, the talented musician. After his first marriage, Mr. Hagen worked for eleven years on rented land in the Oleander district. In 1918 he came to his present holding, where his house now stands, and bought fifteen acres of unimproved land, which he soon set out to vines and planted to alfalfa. By a subsequent purchase, he bought twenty acres more, and still later he added another twenty acres, until he had fifty-five acres, all in bearing trees and vines. For a man who had only sixty dollars to his name when he was married, this is a most creditable showing. When his sons enlisted in the regular army, Mr. Hagen found that he was endeavoring to manage more than he could well attend to and he sold all but fifteen acres. Besides vigorously supporting the cooperative programs of such associations as those for bettering the interests of the raisin and the peach growlers, and thereby helping to advance the state of husbandry in California, Mr. Hagen has done his duty as a citizen, serving on juries and otherwise performing what he was called upon to do for the benefit of the Community at large. Since 1895 he has been a member of Court Fowler Independent Order of Foresters. He is a naturalized American citizen, and in political matters very properly holds himself an Independent.
First wife was Annetta "Nettie" Halberg. She had three children with him before dying in 1897. His second wife was Sophie Carsten. She had two children with him but only one survived.
WILLIAM C. HAGEN A well-to-do and highly-respected rancher who, after many years of toil and varying prosperity, enjoys the fruits of a well spent life, is William C. Hagen, the proud father of two sons who have loyally served in the World War, and two daughters, one a nurse, the other already beginning to attain distinction as a pianist.
He owns a ranch of fifteen acres four miles northeast of Fowler, at the corner of Washington Avenue and the Giffen road, and there he lives with his second wife, in a happy household glad to do its own work.
Born in Pomerania, Prussia, November 9, 1852, the son of Carl Hagen, who had married Minnie Hopp, William C. was the oldest boy and the second in the order of birth of a family of nine children. His father was a stone-cutter, who made curbs and the paving for highways. He attended the public schools of his Fatherland, and was brought up in the Lutheran Church. When only sixteen years of age, he bade good-bye to his parents and relatives and sailed from Bremerhafen on the old sailing ship, "George and John ;" and after forty-seven days on the ocean, he landed at Castle Garden in New York, July 5, 1868, and almost at once proceeded westward to Chicago, where he had relations.
For a while he stopped with his uncle. John Hopp, a tailor * on North Clark Street, in that city, and very gladly worked at anything he could find to do. After he learned the English language, he became a brakeman on the Michigan Central and later, he "broke" on various roads until he went to Oregon in 1882, where he settled down as a farm laborer in Umatilla County. Two years of residence in Oregon, however, and in 1884 he came to Fresno County, where he began to work by the month.
Here in 1891 Mr. Hagen was married to Miss Nettie Halburg. a native of Norway. Mrs. Hagen died in 1897, the mother of three children. Ernest served as a marine in the world war (WWI): Chester is in the artillery in France; and Martha served as a trained nurse in the Letterman Hospital in San Francisco.
Mr. Hagen's second marriage occurred in 1900. when he chose Miss Sophie Carston as his bride: she also was born in Germany, and they have one child, Minnie, the talented musician. After his first marriage, Mr. Hagen worked for eleven years on rented land in the Oleander district. In 1918 he came to his present holding, where his house now stands, and bought fifteen acres of unimproved land, which he soon set out to vines and planted to alfalfa. By a subsequent purchase, he bought twenty acres more, and still later he added another twenty acres, until he had fifty-five acres, all in bearing trees and vines. For a man who had only sixty dollars to his name when he was married, this is a most creditable showing. When his sons enlisted in the regular army, Mr. Hagen found that he was endeavoring to manage more than he could well attend to and he sold all but fifteen acres. Besides vigorously supporting the cooperative programs of such associations as those for bettering the interests of the raisin and the peach growlers, and thereby helping to advance the state of husbandry in California, Mr. Hagen has done his duty as a citizen, serving on juries and otherwise performing what he was called upon to do for the benefit of the Community at large. Since 1895 he has been a member of Court Fowler Independent Order of Foresters. He is a naturalized American citizen, and in political matters very properly holds himself an Independent.
WILLIAM C. HAGEN A well-to-do and highly-respected rancher who, after many years of toil and varying prosperity, enjoys the fruits of a well spent life, is William C. Hagen, the proud father of two sons who have loyally served in the World War, and two daughters, one a nurse, the other already beginning to attain distinction as a pianist.
He owns a ranch of fifteen acres four miles northeast of Fowler, at the corner of Washington Avenue and the Giffen road, and there he lives with his second wife, in a happy household glad to do its own work.
Born in Pomerania, Prussia, November 9, 1852, the son of Carl Hagen, who had married Minnie Hopp, William C. was the oldest boy and the second in the order of birth of a family of nine children. His father was a stone-cutter, who made curbs and the paving for highways. He attended the public schools of his Fatherland, and was brought up in the Lutheran Church. When only sixteen years of age, he bade good-bye to his parents and relatives and sailed from Bremerhafen on the old sailing ship, "George and John ;" and after forty-seven days on the ocean, he landed at Castle Garden in New York, July 5, 1868, and almost at once proceeded westward to Chicago, where he had relations.
For a while he stopped with his uncle. John Hopp, a tailor * on North Clark Street, in that city, and very gladly worked at anything he could find to do. After he learned the English language, he became a brakeman on the Michigan Central and later, he "broke" on various roads until he went to Oregon in 1882, where he settled down as a farm laborer in Umatilla County. Two years of residence in Oregon, however, and in 1884 he came to Fresno County, where he began to work by the month.
Here in 1891 Mr. Hagen was married to Miss Nettie Halburg. a native of Norway. Mrs. Hagen died in 1897, the mother of three children. Ernest served as a marine in the world war (WWI): Chester is in the artillery in France; and Martha served as a trained nurse in the Letterman Hospital in San Francisco.
Mr. Hagen's second marriage occurred in 1900. when he chose Miss Sophie Carston as his bride: she also was born in Germany, and they have one child, Minnie, the talented musician. After his first marriage, Mr. Hagen worked for eleven years on rented land in the Oleander district. In 1918 he came to his present holding, where his house now stands, and bought fifteen acres of unimproved land, which he soon set out to vines and planted to alfalfa. By a subsequent purchase, he bought twenty acres more, and still later he added another twenty acres, until he had fifty-five acres, all in bearing trees and vines. For a man who had only sixty dollars to his name when he was married, this is a most creditable showing. When his sons enlisted in the regular army, Mr. Hagen found that he was endeavoring to manage more than he could well attend to and he sold all but fifteen acres. Besides vigorously supporting the cooperative programs of such associations as those for bettering the interests of the raisin and the peach growlers, and thereby helping to advance the state of husbandry in California, Mr. Hagen has done his duty as a citizen, serving on juries and otherwise performing what he was called upon to do for the benefit of the Community at large. Since 1895 he has been a member of Court Fowler Independent Order of Foresters. He is a naturalized American citizen, and in political matters very properly holds himself an Independent.
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