My Genealogy Hound

SENECA H. GAGE, a prominent farmer and grower of small fruits of Silver Creek, N. Y. is a son of Parker Gage, and was born in January, 1834, in the town of Hanover, Chautauqua county, New York. Grandfather Gage was born in the State of Connecticut, and died in Chautauqua county, New York, some time in the ‘20s. Upon his arrival in the county he first located south of Smith’s Mills, in the town of Hanover, where he set to work, cleared up a farm and rendered it fit for cultivation. Farming has been his life-long occupation. Politically he cast his vote with the old Whig party and held membership in the Baptist church. He was united in marriage and reared a family of three daughters and four sons. Parker Gage, father of Seneca H., was born in Connecticut in 1801, and removed to Chautauqua county with his father, where he died in August of 1849. He always followed farming and cast his vote with the Whig party, under which he served as collector in his native town. In his religious belief he joined with the Baptists. His marriage with Miss Howard resulted in a family of four sons and three daughters: Wallace (died young), Allen, Olive, Caroline, Adaline, Lyman and Seneca H.

Seneca H. Gage attended the common schools in boyhood, and commenced life as a sailor on Lake Erie, which occupation occupied twenty-seven years of his life. He began at the foot of the ladder, and when he quit his sea-faring life, had arisen to the rank of captain. In 1876 he purchased a farm in the town of Hanover, and has since devoted himself to its cultivation. The bulk of his farm has been devoted to the growing of small fruits and grapes, which he has made a special industry in that section of the county,

Seneca H. Gage joined in marriage with Tirzah Maria Scott, a daughter of Chandler Scott, of the town of Hanover, Chautauqua county, and is the father of three children: Emma, wife of Archibald Mulkins, a resident of the city of Buffalo, New York, in the service of the Nickel Plate R. R. Mr. and Mrs. Mulkins have three children — Archibald, John and Emma; Edith, wife of Charles Secord, a farmer of the town of Hanover. They have one child — Georgia, wife of Nelson Dickerson, a farmer living near Silver Creek.

S. H. Gage has always been a democrat in politics, but has never been ambitious to hold office. He belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge No. 151, at Forestville, New York.