Martin Calvin Gage

9 July 1877–9 April 1949 (Age 71)
Russell, Pine Grove Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States

The Life of Martin Calvin

When Martin Calvin Gage was born on 9 July 1877, in Russell, Pine Grove Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Ora Calvin Gage, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Jane (Jennie) Amann, was 23. He married Minnie Matilda Strand on 2 December 1901, in Frewsburg, Carroll, Chautauqua, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Elk Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States for about 60 years. He died on 9 April 1949, in Russell, Pine Grove Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Russell, Pine Grove Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Martin Calvin Gage
1877–1949
Minnie Matilda Strand
1882–1969
Marriage: 2 December 1901
Harold Ammann Gage
1903–1979
Walter Strand Gage
1904–1998
Ethel Grace Gage
1905–2001
Richard Alfred Gage
1907–1990
Florance A Gage
1915–2015
Florence Adah Gage
1915–
Paul Leroy Gage
1917–1992

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
2 December 1901
Frewsburg, Carroll, Chautauqua, New York, United States
children

(7)

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Parents and Siblings

    Ora Calvin Gage

    Male1851–1923Male

    Sarah Jane (Jennie) Amann

    Female1853–1925Female

siblings

(5)

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Age 4

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

Age 5

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

Age 19

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

1 English: from Middle English, Old French ga(u)ge ‘measure’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for an assayer, an official who was in charge of checking weights and measures.2 English and French: from Middle English, Old French gage ‘pledge’, ‘surety’ (against which money was lent), and therefore a metonymic occupational name for a moneylender or usurer.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Sources (3)

  • M C Gage, "United States Census, 1940"
  • M C Gage, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Martin Gage, "United States Census, 1910"

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