Tuscola-Huron County MI Archives Biographies.....Gage, Peter H. 1828 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

PETER H. GAGE. The home of the gentleman whose name graces this page is located
in Elkland Township, Tuscola County. He here has a fine farm. Mr. Gage was born
in Oneida Township, County Haldimand, Canada, July 29, 1828. He is the son of
William and Lydia (Hopkins) Gage, his father being a native of the northern
portion of Ireland. His mother was born in New Jersey. Our subject was reared in
his native country and was denied all educational advantages, as he lived in the
woods, far out in the country where schools were unknown and even neighbors were
rare. He was obliged to work hard, and remained at home until he was twenty-two
years of age, when he began life for himself. Purchasing fifty acres of land
from his father, our subject began farming on his own account. He continued to
work until 1865, when, convinced that there was a better outlook for energetic
young men in the more fertile regions of the Central States, our subject came to
the United States and located in Michigan. When in his twenty-third year he was
married to Miss Salina Parker, a native of the same county as himself, but of
the township of Walpole. This union has been blessed by the advent of three
children-Francis, Alonzo and Lucinda. Francis is now in the West; Alonzo is in
Washington and Lucinda is in New York.

  Our subject's first wife died about 1855. Some time afterward he was again
married to Jane Harrison, of Canada. On coming here in 1865 the portion of the
country that he decided to make his home in was a perfect wilderness and he was
obliged to log out the road to get to his place. He bought eighty acres of land
and began to make a clearing; he now has one hundred acres of land in Tuscola
County and eighty acres in Huron County.

  The pleasant and comfortable home which is the residence of our subject he has
built himself. Naturally of a mechanical turn, all the barns and Outbuildings
upon his place have been erected by his own efforts. Appreciative of what he
himself missed in not securing an education, he has given his children every
advantage, and they have thus far repaid the sacrifices which he has been
obliged to make on frequent occasions. Mr. Gage has always been engaged in
farming and stock-raising since coming to the United States. One year after
coming here he made his home with his brother Joseph. The time that has elapsed
since his advent into this country has been a wonderful one of development, in
which he and others have taken an active part.

  Mr. Gage is a Democrat in politics but has never been ambitious to fill public
office, although he has served on the School Board; he was reared in the Church
of England and has all these years been an adherent of that faith.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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