CAGE, Henry H., Terrebonne then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
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HENRY HAYS CAGE, WASHINGTON.--Henry Hays Cage is a native of Terrebonne
parish, Louisiana, born in the year 1860.  His father, Albert G. Cage, was a
native of Louisiana and an extensive sugar planter.  He was quite a prominent
man in Terrebonne parish; served at different times as sheriff of his parish,
and represented it twice in the State Senate.  He died in 1870 at the age of
forty-three years.

H. H. Cage is the fifth of a family of six children, three brothers and three
sisters.  He was reared and received his preparatory education in Louisiana,
and when fifteen years of age entered the Virginia Military Institute, at
Alexandria, where he took a three years' course.  Upon the completion of his
education he returned to Louisiana and embarked in a mercantile business at
Homer.  In this pursuit, however, he was not suc
cessful; and, after following
it for about three years, he gave it up and became manager of an extensive
sugar plantation, which he operated for about two years.  After this he spent
about three years in New Mexico, where he had large stock interests.  In 1889
he came to this place (Pleasant Hill plantation) and took charge as manager.
The plantation is one of the most fertile and valuable in this section, and
under his management it pays a handsome dividend.  Mr. Cage is a refined and
cultured gentleman, and is an ornament to the social circles in which he
moves.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 22.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.