Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

ARTHUR BRAXTON GAGE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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A citizen who will long be remembered for his effective work during the World 
War in the Liberty Loan drives in California, and in caring for the welfare of 
the troops and otherwise proving his loyalty to the government, is Arthur 
Braxton Gage, who was born in Coryell County, Texas, on April 19, 1874, the son 
of G. W. S. and Salina (Roberts) Gage, the former from Tennessee, the latter a 
native of Texas.  G. W. S. Gage was a graduate of Baylor University, at Waco, 
Texas.  He had a cotton plantation of 260 acres, and also raised stock and 
grain.  He died while on a visit to California, in 1918, at the age of 
sixty-eight.  His devoted wife is still alive at Gatesville, Texas.  The couple 
had twelve children, seven sons and five daughters, of whom Arthur Braxton is 
the third in the order of birth.
Arthur Braxton Gage received his education in the public schools of Texas.  He 
was associated with his father until he came to California in 1900.  In the 
cotton fields his assistance was invaluable, he and his six brothers being 
regarded as the best cotton-pickers in the central portion of Texas.  In 1900 he 
settled on the place where he lives today, a tract of 422 acres about seven 
miles to the northwest of Yuba City, the place formerly known as the Blevin 
Homestead, and there engaged in general farming and the raising of rice.  He 
leased the place for seventeen years, and in the autumn of 1919 he bought the 
property.  Mr. Gage has been a member of the Democratic Central Committee in 
Sutter County; and he was chairman of the board that organized the Nuestro 
district school of Sutter County.  Fraternally, he is a member of the Woodmen of 
the World, affiliated with the lodge at Yuba City.
Mr. Gage was married at Lampasas, Texas, on January 26, 1898, to Miss Della 
Galbraith, the daughter of Thomas Arthur and Martha Ella Galbraith, residing 
about seven miles to the northwest of Yuba City.  Her father came to California 
from Springfield, Mo., in 1852, and she was sent to the grammar school in Sutter 
County.  When she was fourteen years old, her father moved to Texas.  He made 
thirty-two trips across the country, from Missouri and Texas to California, and 
had a stock-ranch of 8000 acres on the Colorado River, west of Lampasas, which 
he sold in 1896.
For a couple of years after his marriage, Mr. Gage lived in Texas, and then he 
moved to California and settled on the old Galbraith place.  Mrs. Gage inherited 
175 of its 580 acres.  They sold eighty acres and bought ten acres additionally, 
so that they now own about ninety-four acres of the Galbraith tract, a splendid 
ranch, which they have well improved and brought to a high state of cultivation; 
and besides they are still the owners of the Blevin ranch of 422 acres.
Mr. and Mrs. Gage are the parents of five children.  Thomas Peery married Lottie 
Minerva Tharp, of Yuba City; and they have two children: Thomas Peery, Jr., and 
Betty Jean.  He is now in the employ of the Standard Oil Company at Yuba City.  
The others are George Galbraith, still at home, and Myrl, Inez, and Ladelle.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 859