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  U.S. Treasury - Biography of Secretary Lyman J. Gage
A staunch defender of the gold standard during the election of 1896, Lyman J. Gage (1836-1927) was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President William McKinley in 1897 and after McKinley's assassination, continued to serve under President Theodore Roosevelt.
Gage resigned in 1902 to become a banker in New York.
Macdonald's portrait of Gage was painted from life in 1900, during Gage's tenure as Secretary of the Treasury.
www.ustreas.gov /education/history/secretaries/ljgage.shtml   (266 words)

  
  Lyman J. Gage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lyman Judson Gage (June 28, 1836–January 26, 1927) was an American financier and Presidential Cabinet officer.
In the free-silver campaign of 1896 Gage labored effectively for the election of William McKinley, and from March 1897 until January 1902 he was Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinets successively of Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
As Secretary of the Treasury, Gage was influential in securing passage of the Gold Standard Act of March 14, 1900, which reestablished a currency backed solely by gold.
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 Secretary of the Treasury - Lyman J. Gage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
    A staunch defender of the gold standard during the election of 1896, Lyman J. Gage (1836-1927) was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President William McKinley in 1897 and after McKinley's assassination, continued to serve under President Theodore Roosevelt.
Later, as vice-president of the First National Bank in Chicago (1891-1896), he made public his views that "the government must be taken out of the note-issuing business." As Secretary of the Treasury, Gage was influential in securing passage of the Gold Standard Act of March 14, 1900, which reestablished a currency backed solely by gold.
Macdonald's portrait of Gage was painted from life in 1900, during Gage's tenure as Secretary of the Treasury.
www.treas.gov /offices/management/curator/collection/secretary/gage.htm   (258 words)

  
 Gage, Lyman Judson - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
GAGE, LYMAN JUDSON [Gage, Lyman Judson] 1836-1927, American banker and cabinet member, b.
Madison co., N.Y. He moved to Chicago in 1855 and from 1868 was associated with the First National Bank of Chicago, of which he became (1891) president.
Gage supported William McKinley for President against William Jennings Bryan and became (1897) President McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-gagel1ym.html   (215 words)

  
 Secretary of Treasury Medal U.S. Mint Lyman J. Gage
Secretary of Treasury Medal U.S. Mint Lyman J. Gage
The following item is a Secretary of Treasury Medal, Lyman J. Gage.
This medal is from the U.S. Mint and is sold without original box or paperwork.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Gage
Gage, Fred C. — of Odessa, Ector County, Tex.
Gage, Howell — of Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, N.M. Democrat.
Gage, O. — of Dunning, Blaine County, Neb. Republican.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/gage.html   (551 words)

  
 History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 2 by J.B. Mansfield, Captains, Shipping, Lighthouse Keepers and Marine Biographies, ...
On one occasion, while he was lying in Ashtabula harbor, the schooner J. Joy appeared, displaying signals of distress, and soon went to the bottom of the lake.
CAPTAIN ORLANDO J. Captain Orlando J. Parker, whose life as a mariner covers a period of fifty years, was a patriot of the way of the Rebellion, and served with honor in the infantry, artillery and navy.
In 1882 the Captain served as mate of the Queen City and the steamer Keystone; in 1883 he was mate two trips on the schooner Robert Rhodes, Captain Green, and for the balance of the season was engaged in the Radcliffe shipyard.
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 [CTRL] [14] Treason in America -- From Aaron Burr to Averell
But John Murray Forbes of Boston, Abiel A. Low of Brooklyn and Lyman J. Gage of Chicago were the "powers behind the throne" (or, representing the throne) for their time.
(14) Lyman Gage was at the center of a political movement which took the American Midwest away from the Abraham Lincoln backers whose primary base was there, and created the degraded climate within which the school of Anglo-Austrian economic thought associated with the University of Chicago could pass itself off as American.
Looking behind the curtain of Lyman Gage's impossible account of his life, starting from the lead about "spiritualism," the present author was led to a late nineteenth-century American sub-culture inhabited by pagan cultists, U.S. Presidents, professors, espionage agents, hypnotists.
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 American President
Secretary of the Treasury: Lyman J. Gage (1897 - 1901)
Born in Deruyter, New York on June 28, 1836, Gage was forced to abandon his education at age 14 when poverty afflicted his family.
After working as a bookkeeper and cashier in Chicago banks, Gage climbed the ladder within the industry, eventually become the leader and treasurer of the "Honest Money League of the North West." By 1882, he had become the vice president and executive officer of the First National Bank of Chicago.
www.americanpresident.org /history/williammckinley/cabinet/treasurysecretary/SecretaryofTreasuryLymanGage/h_index.shtml   (213 words)

  
 Martin Wetzel Walbert, The Coming Battle, chapter 15   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In the state of Nebraska, the office-holding Cleveland element, led on by J. Sterling Morton, was extremely jealous of the wonderful popularity of that splendid young tribune of the people — William Jennings Bryan.
As a result of the deliberations of the convention, William J. Bryan was nominated for President, and Arthur Sewall, of Maine, for vice-president.
In addition to the Gage banking scheme, various other plans of currency reform(?) were brought forward, all of which aimed at the elimination of the greenbacks and treasury notes from circulation, and the substitution of a bank currency in lieu thereof, the Government to be the guarantor and redeemer of these proposed bank notes.
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 American President
Secretary of the Treasury: Lyman J. Gage (1901 - 1902)
Born in Deruyter, New York on June 28, 1836, Lyman Gage was forced to abandon his education at age 14 when poverty afflicted his family.
Gage switched party affiliations in 1884, throwing his support behind Democrat Grover Cleveland for President.
www.americanpresident.org /history/theodoreroosevelt/cabinet/secretarytreasury/LJGage/h_index.shtml   (213 words)

  
 Gage, Oklahoma OK, town profile (Ellis County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Gage was $15,706, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Gage, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $145.
The average commute time for Gage workers is 18 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide.
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 Lyman J. Gage
A staunch defender of the gold standard during the election of 1896, Lyman J. Gage (1836-1927) was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President William McKinley in 1897 and after McKinley's assassination, continued to serve under President Theodore Roosevelt.
During the 1870s Gage had been one of the organizers of the "Honest Money League of the North West," which inaugurated a vicious campaign against the irredeemable greenbacks.
The inability of the Treasury to respond to the needs of the market and the need for an If elastic" currency, which would expand and contract with the needs of the nation, led to the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 to regulate the money market.
www.stanklos.com /virtualpubliclibrary/halloftreasury/LYMANJGAGE.COM   (343 words)

  
 American Experience | Chicago: City of the Century | People & Events
Even bankers like Lyman J. Gage favored clemency, believing that moderation would lead to improved relations between capital and labor.
A number of other men confided to Gage that they were not willing to publicly disagree with Field, the wealthiest and most powerful businessman in Chicago.
Governor Richard J. Oglesby said that he could only pardon the two because the law required each prisoner to ask for clemency.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/e_haymarket.html   (983 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Eli Gage is an officer of the 7-7MF--.
Gage returned home in the spring of 1897, and soon after wrote a series of three articles for the CHICAGO RECORD, which contain so much that is of interest and value relating to the Klondike and Yukon districts that they are reprinted, in a condensed form, in this book.
Recently, however, the attention of the people has been drawn more and more to 'our Arctic province,' and each year has seen an increasing number of prospectors make their way into this country,.
memory.loc.gov /gc/mtfgc/72033/3040305.txt   (182 words)

  
 Theodore Roosevelt
Lyman J. Gage (1901-02); Leslie M. Shaw (1902-07); George B. Cortelyou (1907-09).
Philander C. Knox (1901-04); William H. Moody (1904-06); Charles J. Bonaparte (1906-09).
Charles E. Smith (1901-02); Henry C. Payne (1902-04); Robert J. Wynne (1904-05); George B. Cortelyou (1905-07); George von L. Meyer (1907-09).
www.course-notes.org /biographies/theodoreroosevelt.htm   (1746 words)

  
 The Overland Expedition, 1897-1898
An urgent letter, dated November 15, 1897, from Secretary Lyman J. Gage to Captain Francis Tuttle, skipper of the BEAR, outlined the nature of the emergency and spelled out in great detail the ways and means by which the rescue might be effected.
The best information obtainable gives the assurance of truth to the reports that a fleet of eight whaling vessels are icebound in the Arctic Ocean, somewhere in the vicinity of Point Barrow, and that the 265 persons who were, at last accounts, on board these vessels are in all probability in dire distress.
Secretary Gage’s instructions basically called for a landing of men and supplies as far north as the ice would permit.
www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/johnson_overland_expedition.html   (2466 words)

  
 Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHS: Administrative History (Chapter 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Among them were John E. Burton of Milwaukee, a famous collector of Lincolniana, and Edward J. McDermott of Louisville, representing the New York Christian and Missionary Alliance.
All accounts and books of the Association were placed with the New York firm of Barrow, Wade, Guthrie and Co. Offices were opened at 74 Broadway,with Gov. Joseph W. Folk of Missouri as President.
In March, Frederick J. Pierce was installed as general manager.
www.nps.gov /abli/adhi/adhi3.htm   (2593 words)

  
 The Coming Battle, Chapter 15
In the state of Nebraska, the office-holding Cleveland element, led on by J. Sterling Morton, was extremely jealous of tile wonderful popularity of that splendid young tribune of the people-William Jennings Bryan.
While this commission was abroad, hobnobbing with foreign potentates, Secretary Gage incubated a scheme of banking which he laid before the special session of Congress, accompanied by a report in which he stated that his bill proposed "To commit the country more thoroughly to the gold standard.
To a very large extent, this association was formed out of the railways wrecked during the panic, and whose stocks were purchased by these foreign capitalists at a mere fraction of their.
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 Quintin Publications | Family Genealogies Letter G   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Gage Families: John Gage of Ipswich; Thomas Gage of Yarmouth; William Gage of Freetown; Robert Gage of Weston; William Gage of Canada; Gage Family of the South; Robert Gage of Ireland.
Part One: Information on Robert Gage of Weston, Massachusetts Family, Several Smaller Gage Families, and Many Miscellaneous Records of Individual Members and groups of Members of Families as Yet Unidentified with the Known Gage Families Part Two: Contains Information on Various Canadian Gage Families.
The New England Ancestry of Lyman J. Gage: Secretary of the Treasury in President McKinley's Cabinet.
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 UFO ROUNDUP Volume 8 Number 7
He sent a telegram to the resort in Jacksonville, Florida, where she had spent the winter, telling her he was "deathly ill." Mary took the first train to Chicago.
They were unable to find the securities, which Mary always kept on her person, but they did take the letter, plus the clothes she had recently purchased.
Gage was so upset...well, that's something we'll have to talk about next time in UFO Roundup.
www.ufoinfo.com /roundup/v08/rnd0807.shtml   (4947 words)

  
 Scots and Scots Descendants - J
- born in Scotland and Thomas J. Watson, an American of Ulster-Scottish ancestry on both sides, developed a practical tabulating machine — a prototype computer — for the debt-ridden Computing-Tabulating-Recording company which Watson was managing, later to become IBM.
His sister Mariah was the mother of Lyman J. Gage.
He had a common school education and pursued business ventures until the age of 30 when he united as a pastor with the Methodist Episcopal church of which Dr. Luke Hitchcock was then pastor.
www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Names-J.htm   (3938 words)

  
 Blueprints Magazine, Summer 1988 cover
Subsequently a widely publicized dispute erupted between Burnham and Carlisle that ended in a deadlock.
Implementation of the Tarsney Act did not begin until Lyman J. Gage, chairman of the Chicago corporation that oversaw arrangements for the 1893 Columbian Exposition and a personal friend of Burnham, was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President William McKinley.
Gage began implementation of the law on a limited basis in 1897.
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 Ancestry.com - The New England ancestry of Lyman J. Gage
Ancestry.com - The New England ancestry of Lyman J. Gage
The New England ancestry of Lyman J. Gage
The New England ancestry of Lyman J. Gage : Secretary of the Treasury in President McKinley's cabinet.
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 TIME.com: Forgan -- Nov. 10, 1924 -- Page 1
There the Northwestern National Bank made him cashier and he in turn made the North western one of the strongest institutions in its territory.
Chicago heard of James Berwick Forgan; Lyman J. Gage, President of The First National Bank of Chicago, made him his Vice President in 1892.
Gage became Presi dent McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,728059,00.html   (770 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Articles and discussions on the labor question,: Including the controversy with Mr. Lyman J. Gage on the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Amazon.com: Articles and discussions on the labor question,: Including the controversy with Mr.
Lyman J. Gage on the ethics of the Board of trade; and also the controversy...
Articles and discussions on the labor question,: Including the controversy with Mr.
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 The Presidents' Project - TR - Elections, Administration, and other important events
The following table represents Roosevelt's administration for his term that began in 1905.
Robert J. Wynne, George B. Cortelyou, George von L. Meyer
Paul Morton, Charles J. Bonaparte, Victor H. Metcalf, Truman H. Newberry
surfaquarium.com /PP/RooseveltT/trelections.html   (144 words)

  
 Cook County Clerk David Orr: RESOLUTIONS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Clark Burrus will be the recipient of the Civic Federation's Lyman J. Gage award for Civic Achievement by an Individual, an award given for extraordinary commitment to the community, at their May 1, 2000 annual luncheon; and
Clark Burrus on his selection for the Civic Federation's Lyman J. Gage Award for Civic Achievement by an Individual for the Year 2000; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners of Cook County extends its thanks to Mr.
www.cookctyclerk.com /agendas/2000/april18/resolutions.htm   (1026 words)

  
 OCC 140th Anniversary - The Brown Mouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage commented that "there was not much to Eckels," referring to the new comptroller's small stature.
"But what little there was was three-quarters brains," Gage addded.
Eckels endured the Panic of 1893, when more than 100 national banks closed their doors.
www.occ.treas.gov /OCC140th/mouse.htm   (738 words)

  
 Civic Awards, The Civic Federation
The Lyman J. Gage Award is named for The Civic Federation’s first president, who was at the forefront of Chicago’s civic and financial circles for many years.
Notable recipients of the Lyman J. Gage Award include:
The Addams-Palmer Award is named for two outstanding Chicago women who helped form The Civic Federation—Jane Addams of Hull House and Bertha Honoré Palmer.
www.civicfed.org /about_awards.html   (122 words)

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