Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County Pennsylvania, p.187

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peditions against the Mescalero Apaches, and in October, 1868, was ordered with his company to join the Canadian River expedition under Col. A. W. Evans at Fort Bascom. This expedition was against the “Comanches,” and they were out four months, a greater part of the time without tents, until they found the Comanche village on the Salt Fork of the Red river, Texas, December 25, 1868. Here they were actively engaged with Indians from 10 o'clock, A.M., until sundown of that day.
    In April and May, of 1869, he was with General J. R. Brooke, on his expedition against the Mescalero and the Sierra Diablo Apache Indians. His company had a brief engagement with them near the big Canon of the Guadaloupe mountains, New Mexico. On August 11, 1869, he was assigned to the Third infantry and with his company (D) served on duty in 1870, guarding the Kansas Pacific railway in Colorado, where he had several slight skirmishes with Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians; was removed to Fort Lyon, Colorado, and Camp Supply, Indian Territory, and in 1874 was ordered on reconstruction duty in the South, and remained there until August, 1877, when he was ordered north during the railroad riots in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. In September 1877, he was ordered to Fort Missoula, Montana, where he served until again ordered on recruiting duty in 1878. He rejoined the Third infantry from recruiting service in May, 1881; served with it until April, 1883. In February, 1889, he came to Johnstown on leave of absence, and was there at the time of the great flood, in which he lost several members of his family and all his home property. He was placed on duty there by order of the Honorable Secretary of War, and performed duty with the Pennsylvania National Guard until September, 1889, when he was de- detailed on special recruiting duty for one year, and subsequently selected by Colonel Mason, of the Third infantry, for the regular detail and was on that duty until promoted to major of the Twelfth infantry, July 4, 1892. He was then put in command of Fort Sully, South Dakota, where he remained two years, when he was transferred to Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, and at the time of his death stood within two files of a lieutenant-coloneley, which it was his ambition to reach.
    In 1873 Major Gageby was happily married to Matilda, a daughter of Jacob Fend, of Johnstown, and to their union was born one child, Emma Fend, who was born at Fort Missoula, Montana, and is now being educated at Ogontz' near Philadelphia.
    The above military record, sketched somewhat in detail, is one of which any man might justly feel proud. Courageous in action, firm in the discharge of duty, he was yet one of the most generous, affable, and companionable of men, and his friends in the army were, perhaps, more numerous than those of any other man of his rank. He had the faculty of remembering names and faces to a great degree, and was scarcely ever at fault in recognizing and calling by name any person he had ever met. Constantly forming new acquaintances, he never forgot his old friends, and grasped them to himself as “with hoops of steel,” and although by reason of his occupation, separated for the greater portion of his life from the scenes of his childhood, it is doubtful whether there was at the time of his death a man in the community more universally known and more sincerely like than Major Gageby.

LEWIS L. EDWARDS, late of Cambria township, and the founder of the Edwards family in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, is of

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