[2] Built in 1889 by Thomas Higgins, it was the first solid brick residence in Marshall.

[citation needed] It was built for William Phillip Hagerty, personal engineer of Texas and Pacific Railroad president George J. Gould by railway craftsmen.

[2] Born in 1848 in Ireland during the Great Famine, Hagerty was likely to be arrested by the British government due to his nationalist activities when he emigrated in 1866 to the United States.

[2] It was also listed as a National Register of Historic Places the following year.

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