22 Facts About Henry Gage

Henry Gage was born on Christmas Day, 1852 in Geneva, New York.

In 1873 at the age of 21, Henry Gage was admitted to the Michigan Bar, working for his father's law practice in East Saginaw for over a year.

Between 1874 and 1877, Henry Gage was a successful sheep dealer, selling sheep to various farms around Los Angeles County.

Three years later, Gage married Francesca V Rains, a great-granddaughter of a Californio family.

At the 1888 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Henry Gage was chosen as a delegate-at-large during the proceedings.

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At the state Republican convention that year, Henry Gage was chosen in the first round of voting as the party's nominee for the governorship.

Henry Gage's nomination was largely orchestrated by the Southern Pacific Railroad, who had worked with Gage since the 1870s, and saw him as supportive of their interests.

In one of his first acts, Henry Gage's administration reopened the State Printing Office, which had been closed down by Governor James Budd to cut governmental expenditures.

From early on in his administration, Henry Gage was highly partisan, mostly because of frequent accusations from Reform Republicans and Democrats alike who accused Henry Gage as being a pawn for the Southern Pacific.

Henry Gage wanted to bring back the State Quarantine Service which had recently been removed.

Supportive newspapers, such as the San Francisco Call, San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Bulletin, echoed Henry Gage's denials, beginning what was to become an intense defamation campaign against Joseph Kinyoun, director of the San Francisco Quarantine Station.

Secretary Henry Gage agreed, creating a three-man medical commission to medically investigate the city.

Henry Gage believed the federal government's growing presence in the matter was a gross intrusion of what he recognized as a state concern.

Henry Gage encouraged them to speak with the President about cancelling the quarantine and removing Kinyoun from his duties.

Privately Henry Gage sent a special commission to Washington, consisting of Southern Pacific, newspaper and shipping lawyers to negotiate a settlement with the Marine Hospital Service, whereby the federal government would remove Kinyoun from San Francisco with the promise that the state would secretly cooperate with the Marine Hospital Service in stamping out the plague outbreak.

Henry Gage became increasingly concerned that violence along San Francisco's waterfront was spilling out of the city's control.

On one instance, in order to reassure himself that violence was not increasing, Henry Gage disguised himself as a striker and walked amongst the stevedores to observe conditions personally.

Henry Gage was the first California governor to negotiate an end to a labor strike.

Henry Gage served in Lisbon for a little more than five months until November 1910.

Political instability in Portugal, due to the Revolution of 1910 that deposed King Manuel II, as well as his wife's deteriorating health, forced Gage to submit his resignation to the U S Department of State and President Taft.

In 1902, Gage appointed Ulysses S Webb as California Attorney General.

The Henry Gage Mansion located in Bell Gardens is the oldest remaining home in Los Angeles County and is a registered California State Historical Site.