Background
Hagar, George Jotham was born on September 12, 1847 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jotham Meeker and Harriet Denman (Ross) Hagar.
Hagar, George Jotham was born on September 12, 1847 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jotham Meeker and Harriet Denman (Ross) Hagar.
Educational public schools.
Member Auxiliary Relief Corps, United States Sanitary Commission, in Civil War. News editor Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1867-1882. Associate editor Columbian Cyclopædia, 1888-1893.
One of revisers of Columbian, Johnson’s, People’s Americana, New International, New Standard, New Practical, Standard American, Everybody’s and Twentieth Century cyclops. Compiled What the World Believes, 1885 (republished under title Bibles and Reliefs of Mankind, 1895). The greater part of The History of the United States in Chronological Order, 1886.
Our Great Continent (with B. J. Lossing), 1889, and Appendix to Encyclopædia Britannica, 1897-1898. Editor, cyclopædia section, Anglo-American Encyclopædia and Dictionary, 1900-1902. Reviser of Harper’s Encyclopædia of United States History (10 vols.), 1910, 11, 15, associate compiler Appleton’s New Practical Encyclopædia (6 vols.), 1907.
Compiled chronology of the world in Standard Dictionary, 1912. Revised Eggleston’s History of the United States, 1913. Edited the New Universities Dictionary, 1915.
Edited the Centennial edition of Crabb’s English Synonyms, 1915. Assembled documents in documentary edit. of President Wilson’s History of the American People, 10 vols., 1917. Edited the new World-Wide Cyclopedia, 1917.
Review Appleton’s New Practical Cyclopedia for World War Activities, 1919. Home: Newark, New Jersey.
Member Auxiliary Relief Corps, United States Sanitary Commission, in Civil War.
Married Emma L. Hubbard, November 27, 1878.