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| Eli Gage was born in Chicago to parents Sarah B. (Etheridge) and Lyman Judson Gage. Lyman Gage was a banker and was Secretary of the United States Treasury under presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Lyman Gage was also a stockholder in the North American Trading & Transportation Co. (NAT&T). Eli Gage and Sophia Rogers Weare were married in 1893. They met when Eli was working on the railroad in Des Moines. The Weare family owned the NAT&T and Sophia’s father was the president of the company.((Jim Craig, “Under Every Tombstone.” Association of Graveyard Rabbits, 20, March 2015.))\\ | Eli Gage was born in Chicago to parents Sarah B. (Etheridge) and Lyman Judson Gage. Lyman Gage was a banker and was Secretary of the United States Treasury under presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Lyman Gage was also a stockholder in the North American Trading & Transportation Co. (NAT&T). Eli Gage and Sophia Rogers Weare were married in 1893. They met when Eli was working on the railroad in Des Moines. The Weare family owned the NAT&T and Sophia’s father was the president of the company.((Jim Craig, “Under Every Tombstone.” Association of Graveyard Rabbits, 20, March 2015.))\\ |
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| Eli Gage was an alcoholic, and he was sent to the Yukon to straighten himself up.((Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, page 152. Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.)) He was the manager of the NAT&T in Dawson in 1897.((Murray Lundberg, “Tons of Gold!! Klondike Treasure Ship Passenger Lists.” //ExplorNorth,// 2019 website: http://www.explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/bl-treasureships.htm)) Gage was refused a drink in Bob English’s saloon and, in a drunken rage, tried to kill a bartender named Cameron with a billiard cue. Cameron shot at him with a revolver, but it misfired. This scared Gage and he stopped his attack. The miners wanted to send him down the river but because of his connections and his promise to be quiet the matter was dropped. Healy was at Circle, Alaska and Gage did not have the courage to buy claims from the early Bonanza prospectors and Eli Weare, managing the NAT&T post at Forty Mile, did not have the experience.((Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, page 153-154. Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.)) Mrs. Eli Gage [Sophia Rogers Gage, nee Weare] was on the ocean steamer //Portland// when it reached the south on 17 July 1897. There were sixty-eight passengers on board, forty of them miners. The boat carried over a million dollars in gold.((Murray Lundberg, “Tons of Gold!! Klondike Treasure Ship Passenger Lists.” //ExploreNorth,// 2019 website: http://www.explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/bl-treasureships.htm)) | Eli Gage was an alcoholic, and he was sent to the Yukon to straighten himself up.((Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, page 152. Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.)) He was the manager of the NAT&T in Dawson in 1897.((Murray Lundberg, “Tons of Gold!! Klondike Treasure Ship Passenger Lists.” //ExploreNorth,// 2019 website: http://www.explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/bl-treasureships.htm)) Gage was refused a drink in Bob English’s saloon and, in a drunken rage, tried to kill a bartender named Cameron with a billiard cue. Cameron shot at him with a revolver, but it misfired. This scared Gage and he stopped his attack. The miners wanted to send him down the river but because of his connections and his promise to be quiet the matter was dropped. Healy was at Circle, Alaska and Gage did not have the courage to buy claims from the early Bonanza prospectors and Eli Weare, managing the NAT&T post at Forty Mile, did not have the experience.((Yukon Archives, William Douglas Johns Journal, page 153-154. Coutts 78/69, Box F-89, Folder #20.)) Mrs. Eli Gage [Sophia Rogers Gage, nee Weare] was on the ocean steamer //Portland// when it reached the south on 17 July 1897. There were sixty-eight passengers on board, forty of them miners. The boat carried over a million dollars in gold.((Murray Lundberg, “Tons of Gold!! Klondike Treasure Ship Passenger Lists.” //ExploreNorth,// 2019 website: http://www.explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/bl-treasureships.htm)) |
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| Mrs. Gage’s [father?], Portus Weare, was a Chicago entrepreneur and an owner of the North America Transportation and Trading Co. (NAT&T).((William R. Hunt, //Whiskey Peddler: Johnny Healy, North Frontier Trader.// Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press publishing Company, 1993: 72.)) Mrs. Gage returned north in early August 1897 to join her husband. She was accompanied by her brother W.W. Weare, second vice-president of the NAT&T Co., and several friends and members of her family were in the party. They went in by way of Juneau and the Chilkoot Pass and she planned to join her husband in Dawson. A specially constructed yacht was built for the party in Toronto, planned and fitted for the voyage to Dawson. It was shipped in sections to Dyea, carried over the Chilkoot Pass and put together on the shores of Lake Linderman. It had many comforts and even luxuries but was not as comfortable as her elegantly appointed home in Chicago that Mrs. Gage abandoned to share a season in Dawson with her husband. She also had to leave her 15-month-old baby. W.W. Weare was going to Dawson to take over the management of the banking system to be managed by the NAT&T in every Alaskan mining camp.((A. C. Harris, //Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields.// J.R. Jones. 1897: 51, 211-213.))\\ | Mrs. Gage’s [father?], Portus Weare, was a Chicago entrepreneur and an owner of the North America Transportation and Trading Co. (NAT&T).((William R. Hunt, //Whiskey Peddler: Johnny Healy, North Frontier Trader.// Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press publishing Company, 1993: 72.)) Mrs. Gage returned north in early August 1897 to join her husband. She was accompanied by her brother W.W. Weare, second vice-president of the NAT&T Co., and several friends and members of her family were in the party. They went in by way of Juneau and the Chilkoot Pass and she planned to join her husband in Dawson. A specially constructed yacht was built for the party in Toronto, planned and fitted for the voyage to Dawson. It was shipped in sections to Dyea, carried over the Chilkoot Pass and put together on the shores of Lake Linderman. It had many comforts and even luxuries but was not as comfortable as her elegantly appointed home in Chicago that Mrs. Gage abandoned to share a season in Dawson with her husband. She also had to leave her 15-month-old baby. W.W. Weare was going to Dawson to take over the management of the banking system to be managed by the NAT&T in every Alaskan mining camp.((A. C. Harris, //Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields.// J.R. Jones. 1897: 51, 211-213.))\\ |
