Charlie A. Gage was born at Weaver, Wabasha County, Minnesota, on June 19, 1859 to John Gage and Eleanor Probasco Gage. He was one of seven children.

Ida Pamelia Town, born in 1863 to Gurden and Saffrona (Spink) Town, came to Minnie Lake Township with her parents in 1880. Charlie Gage, her fiancé, followed her, arriving in Tower City in 1880, and filed the first claim in Ellsbury Township (Section 34- Northeast ¼). Charlie and Ida were married at Tower City October 17, 1881 . Their children were Frankie Eleanor (1882-1889), Wells Herbert (1884-1974), Florence Ethel (1886-1889), John Town (1890-1954) and Sue Gage Fosteson (1892).

In 1887, Charlie changed his homestead to the Southeast ¼ of Section 34 and moved his homestead buildings by means of a winch and rollers.

Tragedy struck the Gage household in 1889 when scarlet fever took Frankie and Florence.

Charlie later acquired the Southeast ¼ of Section 3 and the East ½ of Section 15, and the Ellsbury Township school land, the Southwest ¼, Section 36.

Charlie and Ida lived on their homestead until 1904, retiring to the city of Page. Ida was an active member of the Page Methodist Church until her death on December 2, 1941.

Charlie lived with his daughter, Mrs. Sue Fostenson of Fargo, North Dakota until his death in April, 1947.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 75