Gage, Simon Henry: Biologist. Fellow A.A.A.S. (vice-pres, 1885, 1892 and 1899; Member of Ass'n Am. Anatomists, Am. Soc. Naturalists, Am. Micros. Soc., Am. Zool. Soc. Wash. Acad. Sciences.
Born May 20, 1851, at Otsego Co., N.Y., son of Henry V. and Lucy (Grover) Gage.
B.S. Cornell, 1877; studied in Europe, 1889; instr. 1878-81, ass't prof, 1881-89 assoc. prof. psychology 1889-93; assoc. prof. anatomy, histology and embryology, 1893-95; prof. 1895-96; prof. Cornell after 25 years emeretus, 1908.
Married Dec. 15, 1881, to Susanna Phelps of Morrisville, N. Y.
“In 1881 he married Miss Susanna Phelps, who died in 1915. A son, Henry Phelps Gage, the physicist, was born to them. In 1933 he wed Miss Clara C. Starrett.”
NYTimes obituary entitled “Prof. Simon H. Gage of Cornell is Dead”
dated October 21, 1944