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Born 1882, Livingston county
From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
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Lewis received an education in the district school of Illinois and in Alba township, Jackson county, to which place he moved with his mother and stepfather in I8O0. He lived at home until seventeen years of age; then he began working for his brothers on the farm in Alba township. In 1005 the property was divided and Lewis fell heir to the southwest quarter of section 33. He improved the farm and at once began its cultivation.
Mr. Stude was married December 20, 190" to Emma Gerdes. She was born in Livingston county, Illinois. May 25. 1882, and is the daughter of John and Hika (Lanus) Gerdes.
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JOHN t:. GAr.K (1005), dealer in implements and heavy hardware in the village of Lakefield, is a native of Kane county, Illinois, where he was born February 26, 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.Tune 15, 1827. and died November 7, 1880. 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 lie 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 col- lege of Winnebago City, Minnesota. In 1890 he took up the study of pharmacy in the Northwestern School of Pharmacy, of Chicago. Later lie entered the Chicago College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in 1803. From the date of his graduation until 1897 Mr. Cage 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 1001. That year he was appointed nn instructor of disl)ending in the Northwestern medical school. Later he became a salesman and prescription clerk, and was so employed until 1905.
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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.
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