Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — MRS. LYMAN J. GAGE IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MRS. LYMAN J. GAGE IS DEAD.

Wife of Secretary of the Treasury Succumbs to Illness. Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, wife of the secretary of the treasury, passed away at 9:30 Friday evening at Washington. In spite of her illness of nine weeks death came suddenly, and it has greatly shocked the official and social community here, for it is no disparagement to the other women in official life to say that Mrs. Gage was the most popular and best known woman of the McKinley administration. Beyond all question she had given up her life to her official station, and her name must be added to those who have been sacrificed in the relentless treadmill of political and social life in Washington. Mrs. Gage was peculiarly a martyr, because she went to Washington with no previous official experience. The .result was that she entered upon her social duties with such a scrupulous regard for other people, that she, who had scarcely known a sick day in her life, broke down under the strain last fall and never fully recovered. After the funeral services at Washington Secretary Gage will accompany the body back to Chicago, and the burial will take place in the family lot at Rosehill. The services there probably will be private.