The Hagerman family, a numerous and honorable one, were originally from Holland, and settled in Pennsylvania at a very early period of the history of that old colony. They were farmers, and with your countrymen, talk to children to rely at an early age upon their own resources, thus saving them for the realities of life, whenever they should be forced upon them. The subject of our sketch, William Hagerman, was born and upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1802, being a second in a family of two sons and four daughters. His parents were Francis and Anna Hagerman. He worked his father’s farm in Pennsylvania until he accumulated sufficient means to bring him to Oakland County and purchased a farm in 1833. In June of that year himself and his father came to Addison Township and bought the Whole of section 14, and the West half of the southwest quarter of section 13, and the following summer William purchased his father’s interest, and in the month of June, 1834, came with his family, which consisted of his wife and four children, and settled on the old Homestead, where Cornelius, a son, now resides, and which was then to miles from any other white settler. At the time the Indian chief Tuck-a toe was living with the tribe upon the west side of the lake, with whom Mr. Hagerman was ever on friendly terms, often employing them to assist him on the farm. He was a very successful farmer, and to his first very considerable purchase for those days added other tracks from time to time until he was the heaviest landowner in Oakland County, owning about 1300 acres. On the sixth day of January, 1827, Mr. Hagerman was united in marriage to Sarah Dewitt, a most estimable lady, but of whom five sons it were born to him: Alfred, John D., Frank, Cornelius, and William S., All living and residence of Oakland County. Mrs. Hagerman pastor rest April 14, 1845, and Mr. Hagerman subsequently married Mrs. Olive Rice, who died in June, 1859. In 1861 he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Barry, who was born in the Township of Hope, Warren County, New Jersey, May 24, 1808. She was the daughter of Stephen and Katherine Applegate. Mr. Hagerman’s political sympathies have been over with the Democratic Party, with which he is always active. She is from his boyhood than a churchman, and the first religious meetings of Addison Township were held in his house.