Show II GAGE A MAN MANFrom From One Hundred Dollars Q a Year to Secretary ol of The Tho Treasury 5 I Lyman Lymon J Gage was wan a n Chicagoan when ho entered the tho cabinet of ot Pres President President I dent Ilont ns us secretary of the treasury He lie began life lito iu file a tL poor troy boy bo Ho IB is known far and wide an nil a self made nindo II do stun man In this bits eL he ho Is like Governor Shaw of Iowa who will suc sue succeed coed him In ht the tho treasury department Feb L 1 I Ir Mr r loge Gage was V born Jorn June 28 2 1836 1536 In InDe inDe De Huyter N y V Ills His III parents Ell Eli EllA EllA Elit A t and Mary Diary Judson Gage Oage were wert na an natives lives tives of that state stute but the ancestors of each etch were from Now New England l where both families wore were early settlers seWers hay hav having hayIng ing como come from front England I Lyman Gaga Gago entered the academy my at nt nome Home N y x when ho he was ton on years of age but af nf after atter ter only tour four years of schooling ho la was I obliged to leave that hu lie might begin the battle btttle of life lito by earning his own support He lie was ao given glen a n place in tun Rome In which his Ills wages waKes wore 5 a n month and he discharged his hw duty so no well that a year later Iner when whon only IB 16 years of ago age he ho was advanced to time the more nore responsible position of ot mall agent on the Rome noma k Watertown railroad Ills HIs first employment In tho the tholine tholine theline line which he ho afterward made his main occupation and success was In the time Oneida Onelda Central bank In lu 1854 1851 He Ho served ser served ed 1 there as a n clerk clerIc at nt the salary of ot a I year which he sought to have Increased otter after the time expiration of or eight elgh eighteen eighteen een months The Tho management refused his lda request st Disappointed DI he lie resolved to seek n a location where he could nt at least have a n reasonable hope tope for more moro liberal treatment It was then that ho went to Chicago Chleo o In 1866 1865 when whon but 19 10 years yearn of at ago age Tho bonks banks and other Institutions In had no vacancies that t he lie could fill II but he found n a chance to 0 work hard for tor small pay In a II lumber lumberyard lumberyard yard nr and pinning mill where bookkeeping bool keep keepIng ing lag formed part of ot his duty This Title was teas not what he ho had ha sought but he be went event at n It and for tor three years followed It Industriously Poor as a his place pines was there was i worse to come for In the financial depression In 1858 1818 when thousands of ot otmen men amen lost their places the time house he was employed by was wan seriously embarrass embarrassed ed 11 and suspended operations Although they had hud no use URe for tor young Gage In his former capacity they till had to 0 employ a watchman to guard Huard their property and he accepted that position rather than endure Idleness However these thelle disagreeable duties only had to be per performed performed performed formed for tor a 11 short horl time IIII for tor In Au All August August gust AUst WW 1565 1 68 ho he was wall n a 1 pod popl boil In a I bank the of which he had In Chicago The Merchants Sav Savings ings Loan Ionn and Trust company want wantIng wantIng Ing a n bookkeeper set Ret him to In work at nt a salary salan of per p r year ear In less lesH than six months he was promoted to paying baying teller eller at a n salary of 1200 anti and at a the tho expiration of a n year was further ad at v winced to assistant cashier at nt a n salary of 2000 At tho end of another year he woe was given clen the th post of or cashier which he held until 1868 when he severed his connection to assume n sumo a 11 more advantageous genus connection with the First Na National bank of Chicago of ot which he hewan hewan wan WaR president when called to the cab cabinet cabInet inet met In Mr McI first adminis administration ration Mr r Gage entered the lie th First National bank of Chicago as nil cashier Ills His ser sel services services vices did much toward town Id extending tho the popularity of or the he bank and In 1882 when a new Ill charter was procured and n a reorganization effected hi M was WIS elect cleat elected ed cd vice president and manager Jer He filled these for nine years with entire ol re satisfaction to the directors and stockholders and ancl after discharging the active duties dutleR of or the executive for tor sev several se era ern eral I years year was elected president of ot tho thin thOI I 4 a t In hr January 1891 1801 v f r Long f eng before this title Mr Mt Gages Gagas had gained general recognition from th the financiers of ot the country countr and ns as asfar far hack back ns nil 1882 1889 he had been elected president of ot the American Hankers Bankers as ns and tuna twice elected unanimously to that office In tho promotion of the Columbian exposition Mr Sir Gage Cage was among the tho foremost He lie chairman of ot the committee sent to Washington In behalf of or Chicago when the he city became a competitor for the tho was one of ot three gentlemen who lio pledged 10 I on behalf ot or the city and when the exposition company was WIlS organized he was Its to first president l Ho lie was president of or the bankers section of the worlds congress and one of or the tha chief promoters promoter of ot the tho Art Institute and later of the hu Field museum Mr Gages On humanitarian Interests have led him Into the study tull of ot economics especially the relations of ot capital to labor and he lie hns line taken a n prominent part In the of ot questions qU growing out of these relations and has line sought to plans for their mutual mu mutual ual benefit livery moral immoral and mater material ial well being of or his fellow tollo had In him an nn earnest student and strong stron worker Ho lie was WM In the fore forI forefront forefront front of or the battle battie waged by tho the Civic Federation l of which II he was wae president nt for the purification purl of at tho the olty oily of ot Chi Chicago cage cago and was a n frequent speaker anti and wielded In the meetings which w were r held hold by llY that boly bOI Y to n purge the city nf ot gambling houses and other comer evils lie He Is la a II man of social noted n a member of or the time Chicago Union Ifa InI Commer Commercial cial Chicago Literary and flanker clubs When Mr Gage Ongo wits 1111 chosen to ha be secretary of ot the trea treasury he ho VIe pave up his post as bank president Chicago Chronicle AA MI |