Chauncey R. Gage Biography


	This biography appears on page 1191 in "History of Dakota 
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				CHAUNCEY R. GAGE. 

	Chauncey R. Gage is a worthy native son of South Dakota and a 
well known and enterprising agriculturist residing on section 17, Split 
Rock township, Minnehaha county, where he owns a tract of land 
comprising ninety acres. His birth occurred in Lincoln county, this 
state, on the 30th of January, 1874, his parents being George and 
Melinda (Morse) Gage, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter 
of Benton county, Illinois. Their marriage was celebrated in Benton 
county, Illinois, where George Gage had settled as a young man and 
where he was for some years a railroad employee. Through the period of 
the Civil war he served with the Union army as a member of Company K, 
Ninety-sixth Illinois Regiment of Cavalry. In 1870 he came to South 
Dakota, homesteading in Linn township, Lincoln county, where he spent 
the remainder of his life, passing away in 1897. 

	Chauncey R. Gage was reared to manhood under the parental roof 
and in the acquirement of an education attended the common schools. On 
reaching his majority, in 1895, he started out as an agriculturist on 
his own account and followed farming in Lincoln and McCook counties as 
a renter for about eight years. In 1903 he purchased his present home 
farm of ninety acres in Split Rock township, Minnehaha county, and has 
resided thereon continuously since, being actively engaged in its 
further cultivation and improvement. Success has come to him in reward 
of close application and modern ideas as to the best farming methods to 
employ. 

	On the 8th of October, 1895, Mr. Gage was united in marriage to 
Miss Sarah Wallace, of Lincoln county, by whom he has six children, 
namely: Grace, Lee, Lewis, Gladys, Edna and Lucille, all at home. 

	Mr. Gage gives his political allegiance to the republican party 
and now serves as chairman of the school board, the cause of education 
having ever found in him a stalwart friend. His entire life has been 
spent in South Dakota and his record well deserves a place in its 
annals.