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On 13th. September 1848, an accidental
explosion of a charge he had set blew his
tamping iron through his head.
In fact, from early in 1851 until just before he died nine years
later, Gage seems to have worked at the one occupation,
although in two places: in Currier's livery stable and coach
business for 1 1/2 years, and in Chile in a similar capacity for
nearly seven more. There he clearly drove coaches, probably
stage coaches. We know he was barely well enough to do a full
day's work on his parent's farm until June of 1849, just well
enough to travel to Boston in November of that year, and was
still described in 1850 as failing in bodily powers. The maximum
time he could have travelled around New England or been with
Barnum's Museum would seem to have been about a year. We
know nothing about the quality of his work for Currier or when he
was in Chile, or to what extent he was able to support himself.
This has not prevented the fabrication of employment histories
somewhat at variance with one another: for example, in one he is
totally aimless, in another he makes a lot of money from
exhibiting himself but dies penniless in an institution.