John G. Gage

As printed in 1910

JOHN G. GAGE (1905), dealer in implements and heavy hardware in the village of Lakefield, is a native of Kane county, Hlinois, where he was born February 2fi, 1870. His parents were Solomon and Marion (King) Gage, descendants of colonial stock, and natives of New York and Connecticut, respectively. His father was born June 15, 1827, and died November 7, 1886. His mother was born October 4, 1840, and died January 4, 1871.

Our subject's younger days were spent on his father's farm in Kane county, Illinois, where he received his primary education in the district schools. At the age of seventeen he became a student at the Elgin academy, Elgin, Illinois, and later was a student at Drew's Business college of Elgin and the Parker college of Winnebago City, Minnesota. In 1890 he took up the study of pharmacy in the Northwestern School of Pharmacy, of Chicago. Later he entered the Chicago College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in 1893. From the date of his graduation until 1897 Mr. Gage was employed as a pharmacist in Chicago. He then embarked in the drug business at Hamshire, Illinois. Selling out two years later, he moved to Chicago and worked as a pharmacist and prescription clerk until 1901. That year he was appointed an instructor of dispensing in the Northwestern Medical school. Iater he became a salesman and prescription clerk, and was so employed until 1905.

When a boy fifteen years of age, Mr. Gage first came to Jackson county and resided for a period of six months on his father's farm four miles east of Lakefield. In 1905, on account of ill health, he was obliged to give up his profession, and then it was he came to Jackson county to reside permanently. He located in Lakefield and entered into the implement and heavy hardware business in partnership with his brother, C. M. Gage, and Lakefield has since been his home. Mr. Gage owns the southeast quarter of section 1, Hunter township, and residence property in Lakefield. He is a member of the Methodist church and a prominent lodge man, holding* membership in the A. F. & A. M., at Lakefield, Chapter, at Jackson, Commandery, at Fairmont, Osman Temple, at St. Paul, Eastern Star and Odd Fellows, at Lakefield.

Mr. Gage was married in Chicago September 8, 1898, to Clara T. Burke, who was born In Nevada county, Ohio, November 8, 1873. She is the daughter of CJharles W. Burke, who died in Chicago in December, 1908, and Henrietta Burke, who now resides in Chicago. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gage, Bemice Marie Gage, born November 27, 1899.

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.