He stayed there to teach Greek, and he married a Bethany College graduate Mamie Campbell on 11 September 1883.

[3] Hagerman brought his family with him to Richmond, Kentucky in 1885 where he served as President of the Madison Female Institute for five years.

The campus was located at the north-west edge of the center of Lexington, Kentucky on Second Street - and only four blocks away from his previous institution, Hamilton College.

The women boarding students and the Hagermans lived there in the top four floors, and in the large basement was the kitchen and cafeteria.

[7] The unexpected death of Mamie Hagerman in May 1912 led to a public announcement by her husband that he would not reopen the school in the fall.