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Biographical/Historical:
Thomas Holme Hagner was born in 1817 to Peter Hagner, third Auditor of the United States Treasury, and Frances Randall, daughter of John Randall, Collector of the Port of Annapolis. Thomas Hagner moved to Tallahassee in 1838, after completing law school at Annapolis, Maryland. He married Catherine J. Gamble, daughter of John G. Gamble, in 1844.
Hagner was a successful area lawyer and a prominent member of Tallahassee society, having connections with the Eppes, Call, Randolph, Randall, Wirt, and Duval families. He is believed to have been the first owner and occupant of what is now known as the Knott House. He died there in 1848 at the age of 30 of a lingering liver ailment.
Summary:
This collection contains typescripts of letters written by Thomas H. Hagner from Tallahassee to his family in Washington, D.C. He posted a few from other North Florida locations, as well as other locations in the Eastern United States. It also includes typescripts of a few letters by his uncle, Thomas Randall, who was a Supreme Court Judge for the Territory of Florida, and a single letter from John G. Gamble, Thomas Hagner's father-in-law, to Peter Hagner, written upon the occasion of Thomas Hagner's death.
The letters primarily discuss Hagner's family and professional activities as a lawyer in the Middle District of Florida. While somewhat lacking in local description, the letters do contain information on judicial operations, legal cases, transportation, health, the military, and agriculture during the 1830s and 1840s.
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Reproduction Note:
Photocopies.
Location of Originals/Duplicates:
Peter Hagner Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Ownership/Custodial History:
Transcripts of Hagner-Randall letters donated by the Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board. Transcripts and photocopies made from the originals in possession of Southern Historical Collection.
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Subject Access Fields:
Lawyers Florida Judges Florida
Tallahassee (Fla.)
Added Entries
Gamble, John Grattan, 1779-1852
Randall, Thomas, Judge, b. 1792
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