Bios: ROBERT E. CAGE: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    ROBERT E. CAGE,
    
    [p. 405] a resident of New Castle, is an extensive dealer in all kinds and
  grades of coal, flag-stone paving, hearths and chimney tops; his office and
  yards are at No. 164 South Mill Street. He also conducts a grocery store at
  No. 301 South Mill Street. He is the eldest of six children born to his
  parents, John and Louisa (Buchanan) Cage; the latter our subject's mother,
  was a daughter of James Buchanan, a native of England, who married a Miss
  Babcock, who was born in Vermont. John Cage was born in Pittsburg, March 18,
  1817, a son of Robert Cage, who married a Miss Cowell; by occupation and
  choice of pursuits, John Cage was a farmer, and also a mill owner.
    
    Robert E. Cage was born in Crawford County, near Little Cooley, Dec. 31,
  1849; he was reared in his native county, and attended the district school
  when opportunities were offered, when he was not laboring on the farm or in
  the oil region. He then learned the carpenter's trade, and supported himself
  at that vocation for a number of years, and next became a speculator in tools
  of various kinds, after which he kept a hotel. In May, 1881, he came to
  Lawrence County, and for two years thereafter was employed as engineer for
  the Hope Furnace Co. In 1883, he took up his residence in New Castle, and
  worked as engineer for the railroad company, the glass works and others for a
  period of three years, and then bought a confectionery store and conducted it
  with profit two years and a half. Then he was interested in the livery
  business for the space of a year and then after working a few months at his
  trade of a carpenter, in 1893, he went into the coal business, and has since
  taken to contracting and to supplying stone flagging, sewer pipe, hearths,
  and chimney tops, making a specialty of the two last items.
    
    Mr. Cage was married, Feb. 25, 1878, at Edinburg, Pa., to Hattie B. Van
  Horne, daughter of William and Mary A. (Moorehead) Van Horne, and six
  children have cemented this union: Myrtle Maude; Charles Milford; George
  Andley; Grace Emmett, deceased; Robert Henry; and Nahoma Marie. Mrs. Cage is
  a member of the Baptist Church, and a zealous laborer in religious work. Our
  subject is a Republican in his politics, and has served the city one year as
  street commissioner. He is a member of Western Star Lodge, Knights of
  Pythias, No. 160, also of the Protected Home Circle, New Castle Lodge, No. 5.
  He has been a member in years past of the junior Order of United American
  Mechanics, and also of the A. O. U. W.