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Born 1862
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
CHARLES M. GAGE (1885). deceased, the oldest son of Solomon Gage, was born on his father's farm in Kane county. Illinois, on the 25th day of December, in the year 18t)2. He attended a country school that was located near his home and finished his education at a seminary at Elgin, Illinois.
He was a very industrious and model young man and the old farm remained his home until 1885, when be married Eslella MiCl.land and moved to Jackson county, Minnesota, where he purchased the south half of section 31 in the township of Belmont and developed it into one of the best stock farms in the covinfy. While living in Belmont township he served several terms as chairman of the town board and clerk of his school district.
[This passage is too damaged in the scanned book to reproduce. See the original book.]
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: John Frederickson (b. 1846)
Their biographies name Charles M. Gage: Theodore E. Gage (b. 1884)
The printed record stops around 1910. We trace your line from there down to you, with every source cited.