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Samuel W. Eager Jr. (Clerk of the St. Louis County Court)

b. 1827-11-19

St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, clerk. New York native. Son of Samuel W. Eager and Catherine Macaulay Eager. Married to Clara D. Marsh Eager in St. Louis County, Missouri, on May 7, 1857. Father of Catherine "Kate" Macaulay Eager, Henry Marsh Eager, and Robert Whitney Eager. Clerk in St. Louis in 1850. Clerk of the St. Louis court house from 1849 to 1867.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis, Ward 4, p. 77B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Wisconsin, Racine County, Mount Pleasant, p. 309B-310A.

Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, St. Louis County, p. 252.

Marsh Genealogy. Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct., 1636-1895. Also Including Some Account of English Marshes, and a Sketch of the Marsh Family Association of America, ed. Dwight Whitney Marsh (Amherst, MA: Carpenter & Moorehouse, 1895), 459.

Citation

Eager Samuel W., Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206061 (November 12, 2026).

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