Obediah W. Gage is a native of Addison county, Vermont, and was born in 1813. He came to the State of Illinois in the fall of 1838, and in the spring of 1839 to Prophetstown, first working at his trade as a shoemaker, and afterwards opening a farm on Jackson street, where he still resides. He was County Commissioner in 1848, and for six terms Supervisor of Prophetstown township. He married Miss Mercy L. Farrington in 1851. There have been two children by this marriage: Augusta, and Euretta, both of whom are living at home.
Bent & Wilson History of Whiteside County
