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SAMUEL W. EAGER was a native of Montgomery, and he commenced practice there. He was a man of excellent natural and acquired abilities, but having been unfortunately appointed a justice of the peace when a young man, he acquired habits of indolence that were his besetting sin through life. He was elected to Congress for the unexpired term of Hector Craig in 1830. This, aside from ideal stations,—postmaster at Newburgh, police justice of Newburgh, justice of the peace, etc.,—was his only public official service. As a man and a citizen his character was blameless. Through his "History of Orange County," prepared in 1847, his name and memory have been preserved in many households in his native county. His wife was Catharine, daughter of John McAuley, a merchant of Newburgh. He had four sons,—John M., who practiced law in Newburgh, St. Louis, and New York; Samuel W., now of Racine, Wis.; Frank, and another.
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