Andrew J. Gahagan

       Andrew T. Gahagan, of Chattanooga, was born in Madison County, N. C., February 23, 1844, son of George W. and Mary E. (West) Gahagan, natives respectively of South and North Carolina. Our subject was reared and educated in North Carolina, and at the breaking out of the war enlisted in Company D, First Tennessee Cavalry (United States Volunteers), and during service was promoted to the rank of second and first lieutenant. During the last year of the war he served as quartermaster of his regiment. In 1867 he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Chattanooga, but retired from this in 1878 and was elected trustee of Hamilton County, serving by re-election two terms or until 1882, when he was elected assistant cashier of the First National Bank. In 1884 he became a member of the firm of Loomis, Hart & Co., having charge of the finances of said firm. On the 1st of March, 1871, he married Eliza J. Dugger, of Chattanooga, and to them were born three children -two sons and one daughter. Mr. Gahagan is a Republican in politics, and as such was elected to the office of trustee. He served as a member of the board of mayor and aldermen several terms. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of the K. T., of the G. A. R and of the Methodist Episcopal Church North.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887