Daniel Stage (1870-1929) Prospect 208A

Daniel Stage was a successful architect and business man in the Richmond Hill area. His offices were located at Lefferts Avenue (now Boulevard) and Jamaica Avenue. He built, designed and had mortgages on many residential and commercial buildings in Richmond Hill. His first wife, Carrie Abrams Stage died in May of 1907 after a long illness at their residence at Stewart and Lefferts. When she died, the obituary mentions an 8 year old son. Also buried with Daniel and Carrie is Marie E., age 83 years old at the time of her death in 1964. We assume she is his second wife.

In 1902, through his Masonic Lodge, Daniel took into custody his niece, a young 14 year old girl named Ella Peterson. Her father John was committed to an insane asylum and her mom had died of cancer. The young girl was adopted and not a blood relative to Stage, and he became her legal guardian and no further information could be found. Stage died in 1929. Many of his elegant houses still stand tall in Richmond Hill.