Nathaniel Francis Hagel (1846 – 1915)
	
Nathaniel Hagel was born near Ingersoll, Upper Canada to Samuel and Eliza Ann Tapley Hagle [sic].  Hagel left home at age seventeen determined to be a lawyer against his father’s wishes. He supported himself as an actor and schoolteacher before becoming an articled law student in Woodstock and later Toronto. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1873. He practiced criminal law in Toronto for eight years and then moved to Winnipeg in 1881. He continued to practice law in Manitoba and was called one of Canada’s most brilliant lawyers. He disliked preparing for cases and relied on his intelligence, quick wit, and a profound knowledge of the law, the Bible and Shakespeare to win his cases before a jury. He was appointed Queen’s Council in 1885. He was a strong Conservative and served for many years as the vice-president of the Manitoba party. He ran in two provincial elections to be defeated by narrow margins.  Hagel moved to Vancouver in 1898 and then to Dawson in 1900.  He organized the Dawson City Conservative Club and served as the first president. He became the president of the Yukon Horticultural and Floral Association, and the Yukon International Polar Institute. He practiced law in the Yukon and after he returned to Winnipeg in 1905. One of his last cases was in 1914 where he assisted in the defense of his lawyer son, Percy Elden, who was charged with smuggling a gun and a rope to a man accused of murder during a bank robbery. His son was found guilty and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Hagel suffered a paralytic stroke in the fall and died the following year.((Lee Gibson, “Nathanial Francs Hagel.” //Dictionary of Canadian Biography,// 2019 website: 
www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hagel_nathaniel_francis_14E.html))