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2 unusual facts about Alfred S. Gage


A. S. Gage Ranch

Today’s ranch is only a part of what was a once much larger operation founded in 1883 by Alfred S. Gage.

Alfred S. Gage

Alfred Stevens Gage (February 6, 1860– June 23, 1928) was an American rancher and businessman who founded the A. S. Gage Ranch in west Texas.


Battle of Honey Hill

Determined attacks were launched by U.S. Colored Troops including a brigade led by Alfred S. Hartwell that included the 54th Massachusetts and 55th Massachusetts.

Charles S. Keith House

After the sale of the house, Charles Keith later went on to gain additional public notoriety when he accepted the position of interim mayor of Kansas City in 1940 between Bryce B. Smith's resignation and the inauguration of John B. Gage.

First Chicago Bank

Lyman J. GageSecretary of the Treasury under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt was a former bank president, who ascended the organization after beginning as a cashier

Jetboard

Their initial development and production was funded by Alfred S. Bloomingdale who was said to dislike paddling and was heir to the Bloomingdale's Department store fortune).

John B. Gage

He was to cut the city budget by $700,000, hired city manager L.P. Cookingham, and began to expand the city limits.

John Hiram Lathrop

His son is Gardiner Lathrop who was founder of the Kansas City law firm Lathrop & Gage.

John Wilkie

The decision to appoint Wilkie was made by Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, who wanted to experiment with placing a newspaper man at the head of the bureau.

KAM Isaiah Israel

Built for the Isaiah Israel congregation in 1924, the structure was designed by Alfred S. Alschuler, who drew his influence from photographs of the second-century Severus synagogue unearthed at Tiberias, in Galilee.

L. M. Shaw

Like his predecessor Secretary Lyman Gage, Shaw firmly believed that the Treasury should serve the money market in times of difficulty through the introduction of Treasury funds.

Lyman J. Gage

Afterwards be became successively assistant cashier, vice-president and president of the First National Bank of Chicago, one of the strongest financial institutions in the Middle West.

Samuel Wesley Stratton

He won the support for his plans from Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage and in March 1901, President William McKinley appointed him the first director of the National Bureau of Standards.


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