GAGE, James P. 1811-1883

GAGE, BUCK, JAGEMANN, LYALL

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 10/7/2002 at 18:45:23

The Lyons Mirror Saturday April 7, 1883 Mr. James P. Gage, whose illness had before been referred to in our columns, died on the evening of Monday, April 2nd, at 10 o'clock, aged 72 years. He had been suffering from pleurisy for about a week, his condition being critical from the first. Mr. Gage removed from Hamilton, Ontario, to Iowa, in 1855, living on a farm near Sterling, Jackson county for three years, when he came to Lyons and entered into business. For many years he was a leading grocer of this city; and almost from the outset was interested in banking affairs here - first, in the State Bank; next in the First National Bank, of which he was President for nearly twenty years, and Vice President to his death. Several years ago he instituted the Farmers' and Citizens' Bank at Clinton, which he has since conducted, Mr. Lyall and Bidwell Gage, and, later, Bidwell and James Gage, Jr., being in that establishment with him. The funeral was largely attended at the family residence yesterday afternoon. Mr. Gage has been a very valuable and prominent figure in the business of our city ever since his arrival, enjoyed the esteem and confidence of an unusually wide circle of acquaintances, and will be greatly missed in Lyons and Clinton and elsewhere.
Personal Mrs. J. Lawrence and Mrs. Dr. Buck, of Palermo, Ontario, and Mrs. J. Buck of Milwaukee, Wis., sisters of Mrs. Gage; Mr. and Mrs. Hagemann, of Chicago; and Mr. Wm. Lyall, of Minneapolis, came on to attend the funeral of Mr. J.P. Gage.