BIOGRAPHY: John E. HAGEY, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 255-6
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JOHN E. HAGEY, a man of high standing, and the general manager of Penn Traffic 
company of the city of Johnstown, is a son of David and Margaret (Kissinger) 
Hagey, and was born at Martinsburg, Blair county, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1853. 
The Hagey family is of German origin, and settled in pioneer days in Huntingdon 
county, where Jacob Hagey, the paternal grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, was born, in Woodcock valley. From this valley he went to Marietta, 
Ohio, where he died in 1855, aged seventy-three years. David Hagey (father) was 
born in Huntingdon county, December 13, 1825, and is still a resident of 
Martinsburg, Blair county, to which place he removed in 1850. David Hagey 
learned the trade of stone-mason, which he followed until some fifteen years 
ago, and was engaged for many years in building and contracting. He is a member 
of the German Reformed church, and wedded Margaret Kissinger, who was a native 
of Martinsburg, and died there July 27, 1884, aged fifty-one years. David 
Kissinger was of German origin, and after learning the trade of tailor at 
Reading, removed to Martinsburg, where he died at seventy years of age.
      John E. Hagey passed the early years of his life at his native place and 
at Fredericksburg, in the same county, receiving his education in the common 
schools, where he devoted his attention chiefly to those branches essential to 
success in business. At sixteen years of age he left the school-room to enter 
the great school of business life as a clerk in a general mercantile 
establishment, where he so thoroughly fitted himself for his selected line of 
life-work that, in October, 1882, he received the position of purchasing agent 
for the Penn Iron and Mining company, whose plant was located at Vulcan, 
Michigan. Four years afterwards Mr. Hagey was made general manager of their 
mines, in which capacity he served until July, 1891, when he resigned to accept 
his present position as general manager of the Penn Traffic company, Limited, of 
Johnstown. The stores of this company are extensive, and Mr. Hagey has a regular 
force of one hundred employees under his personal control in the different 
departments, which owe a large part of their prosperous upbuilding and present 
prosperity to his efficient management and careful supervision.
     He is a republican in politics, and a regular attendant of the Presbyterian 
church. While not a politician in the generally accepted sense of that term, 
yet, when only twenty-one years of age, he was elected as auditor of Blair 
county, and held that office successfully for a term of three years. His early 
inclination toward business pursuits, instead of professional or political life, 
was not only characteristic of his special qualifications for industrial or 
commercial enterprises, but was indicative of the perseverance that is always 
the forerunner of success.
     On September 17, 1871, Mr. Hagey wedded Mary N. Brumbaugh, a daughter of 
Rev. G. W. Brumbaugh, of Fredericksburg, Blair county. Mr. and Mrs. Hagey have 
one child living, a daughter named Carrie.