HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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doctor's degree in 1874. The same year he began practice in Aurora, and here has been continuously engaged in professional labors to the present time (1904). Dr. Gabel contributes to the medical journals, and is a member of the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society, the Fox River Valley Medical Association, the National Eclectic Medical Association, and the Illinois Eclectic Medical Association. The Doctor is a Royal and Select Mason, and has served on the Board of Health and the Aurora Board of Aldermen. In 1869 he married Miss Jane C. Shepherd, of Kendall, Ill., and in 1876, after her death, married Miss Ella M. Olds, of Aurora. After the death of his second wife Dr. Gabel contracted a third marriage, in 1888, with Mrs. Budora M. Lamb, of Chicago.
CYRIL GAGE, retired farmer, Hampshire, Ill., born in Wyoming County, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1823; grew to manhood in his native State, and came to Kane County, Ill., in November, 1845; went to California in 1852, but returned to Kane County two years later and purchased a 120-acre farm one mile east of Hampshire, where he resided until 1884, when he retired from active farm life and removed to the village of Hampshire. On Jan. 25, 1849, he was married to Miss Julia Fields, and they have seven children.
HERBERT A. GAGE, merchant, Pingree Grove, H!., born in Hampshire Township, Kane County, Dec. 5, 1855, son of Cyril and Julia (Fields) Gage. His father settled in Hampshire Township, Kane County, about 1841, and still resides there, being at the present time (1903) above eighty years of age. Mr. Herbert A. Gage has been identified with several enterprises, and at the present time is conducting a general store at Pingree Grove. He was married in 1879 to a daughter of Henry McBride, of Elgin.
HENRY J. GAHAGAN, physician and surgeon, Elgin, Ill., born at Grafton, Ill., Dec. 27, 1867, son of Bernard and Ellen (Armstrong) Gahagan; educated in the public schools at Grafton-graduating from the high school- and at a private school in Chicago; graduated from Rush Medical College (Chicago) in 1893; appointed assistant physician in the Eastern Illinois Hospital for Insane in 1893; later in the same year was transferred, at his own request, to the Illinois Northern Hospital for Insane at Elgin, remaining with the latter institution until 1897; began private practice in Elgin in the latter year, in which he has since been successfully engaged. He was married in 1893 to Miss Delia Cullen, of Amboy, Ill.
BLI H. GALE, physician and surgeon, Aurora, born in Townshend, Windham County, Vt., April 14, 1857; was educated in his native State, graduating from Middlebury College, Vt., in 1862, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1865; was examined and appointed Surgeon in the Union army the latter year, being assigned to the One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and put in charge of the barracks hospital in Philadelphia, where he remained until the close of the war. The following year he located in Aurora, where he has remained to the present time, with the exception of the period from 1880 to 1890 when he was associated with his brother in professional work in Marshall County, Ill. Under Presidents Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt he has been a member of the Board of Pension Examiners at Aurora, of which body he is now the President. He contributes to medical journals and stands high in the profession. Dr. Gale married Miss Adelaide R. Parker, oi' Aurora, in 1868, who died in 1874. Six years later he married Miss Mary A. Pike, of Bloomington. Their children are Henry G., a graduate of, and now instructor in, the University of Chicago; Mrs. Mabel Gale Lowrie, of Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Frances Gale Stewart, 01 Plainfleld, Ill.; Eli P. and Burton P., a student of the University of Chicago.
WARD B. GALE (deceased), late a noted musician, Elgin, Ill., was born June 22, 1858, at Volo, Lake County, Ill., where he grew up, receiving a public school education and learning the trade of a machinist. About 1882 he came to Elgin, and so long as his health permitted was connected with the National Watch Factory there. Soon after his arrival in Elgin he joined the Germania Band, and in later years held more than a local reputation as a musician. From 1884 until his death he was a member of the Elgin Military Band. He was married in 1881 to Miss Ida Kellar, of Indianapolis, Ind., who survives him, and still lives in Elgin.
