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^Tent to Chicago, 111., where lie worked in a lum ber yard, but failed to find permanent employ- ment till 1S58, when he became book-keeper in the Merchant's Saving Loan and Trust company of Chicago, 111. He was promoted teller, assist- ant cashier and cashier, and in 1868 he transferred his services to the First National bank of Cliicago as its cash- ier. On the reorgan- ization of the bank in 1883 with a capital of 83,000,000, he was made vice-president and general manager, and in 1891 was elected president of the bank. He was selected by President- elect McKinley as secretary of the treas- ury in his cabinet February, 1897, and on February 1.5 he resigned his position as president of the bank, and was appointed secre- tary of the United States treasury, March 4, 1897. His nomination was confirmed by the senate, March 5, and he at once entered upon the dis- charge of his duties. He was president of the American bankers association for many years; president of the local board of directors of the Columbian exposition, 1893; president of the Civic federation of Chicago; director and treasurer of' the Art institute, and an officer of prominent clubs in that city. He was married in 1864, to Sarah, daugliter of Dr. F. B. Etheridge of Hast- ings, Minn. She died in 1874. He was married June 7, 1887, to Mrs. Cornelia Washburn Gage of Denver, Col. Beloit college conferred upon him the lionorary degi-ee of LL.D. in 1897.

QAQE, Matilda Joslyn, reformer, was born in Cicero, N.Y.. Marcli 24, 1826; daughter of Dr. Hezekiah and Helen (Leslie) Josh-n; and grand- daughter of Sir George and Leslie Magdalena Towers. Her mother was born near Edinburgh, Scotland. She attended Hamilton seminary, Deruyter academy, and the Clinton Liberal institute. In 184."j she was married to Henry H. Gage, a merchant in Cicero, N.Y., and shortly afterward began to lecture and write ujwn anti-slavery and woman suffrage tojiics. She was corresponding secretary of the New York state woman suffrage society, 1869-70; president of the same nine years: president of the National woman suffrage association, 1875-76. and chairman of the executive committee and its general secretary for many years. In 1878 she was instrumental in the formation of the

Woman's national Iil)eral league and was elected its president. In 1888 she was prominent in ar- ranging the International congress of women at Washington. She was a member of the National council of women of the United States and a member of the committee on " The Woman's Bible" to which she was a contrilnitor. She edited and published The National CitLseu at Syracuse, N.Y''., 1878-81; was one of the editors of the History of Woman Suffrage (1881-87); and is the author of Woman's Biyhts Catechism (1870); Woman as Inventor (1870); Woman's Declaration oj Jli(ihts (1876); ^^^w Planned the Tennessee Cam- paign? (1880); Woman, Church and State (1898); and on her deathbed she wrote: Woman's De- mand for Freedom: Its Effect itpon the World, which was read at the 50th Anniversary suffrage convention at Washington. D.C., Februar3^ 1898. She died in Chicago. III., March 18, 1898.

QAQE, Simon Henry, naturali.'st, was born at Maryland, N.Y'., May 20, 1851; son of Henry Van Tassel and Lucy Ann (Grover) Gage; grandson of Abraham and Hannah (Van Tassel) Gage, and of Asa R. and Elizabeth (Cole) Grover, and a de- scendant of William Gage, William Makepeace, William Bogardus and William Davis. He was prepared for college at the Albany normal school and the New York Confer- ence seminary at Charlotteville, N.Y'., and was graduated from Cornell univer- sity in 1877. He was instructor in microscopy and prac- tical physiology at Cornell university, 1878-81; assistant professor of pliysiology and lecturer on microscopical teclmology, 1881-89; studied in Europe, 1889, and was associate pro- fessor of physiology from 1889 to 1896. In 1896 he was apijointed professor of microscopy, histol- ogy and embrj'ology in Cornell university and the New Y'ork state veterinary college. He was vice- president of the microsco])icaI section of the American association for the advancement of science in 1885, and presided over the section of biology in 1892. In 1896 he was president of the American microscopical society. He was elected to membership in the Association of American anatomists, the American society of natural- ists, and the American morphological society. His published works include: TTie Microscope and Ilistolofiy (1881; 7th rev. ed., 1899); Anatomical Technoloriy (with Prof. B. G. Wilder, 1882; 3ded., 1886); Notes on Histological Methods (1886); Notes