. Contemporary American biography . CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 315 of citizen, lending powerful aid to every great public work, every measure tending towardthe betterment of the civic condition, that his highest potentiality has been realized andrecognized. The story of the boyhood and early manhood of this modest and almost incon-spicuous, wholly unassuming and unselfish leader among men, is one which has many simili-tudes in kind but few in degree. Many have toiled upward as he did from obscurity toinfluence and usefulness, but few have surmounted so long a series of obstacles, or as f
. Contemporary American biography . CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 315 of citizen, lending powerful aid to every great public work, every measure tending towardthe betterment of the civic condition, that his highest potentiality has been realized andrecognized. The story of the boyhood and early manhood of this modest and almost incon-spicuous, wholly unassuming and unselfish leader among men, is one which has many simili-tudes in kind but few in degree. Many have toiled upward as he did from obscurity toinfluence and usefulness, but few have surmounted so long a series of obstacles, or as for-midable ones. The record is one of extended, unceasing toil and indissuadable purpose—acontinuous exertion of energy which would have exhausted many a man and left him un-able to seize upon success when it was finally at hand. Our subject was born fifty-eightyears ago in De Euyter, N. Y. His parents, Eli A. and Mary (Judson) Gage, were nativesof that State, but the ancestors of each were from New England, where both families w
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