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Gage, Alfred Payson

educator, author, was born April 15, 1836, in Hopkinton, N. H. He is engaged in educational work, and is the author of a series of Text-Books on Physics.

GAGE, MRS. FRANCES DANA [BAR- KER], suffragist, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 12, 1808, in Marietta, Ohio. She was a prominent advocate of woman suffrage who lectured much on that subject as well as upon temperance and anti-slavery. She was the author of Elsie Magoon, a temperance story; Poems; Gertie's Sacrifice; Nightcaps, a Series of Books; and Sparks Upward. She wrote much over the signature Aunt Fanny. She died Nov. 10, 1884, in Greenwich, Conn.

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