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REUBEN GATES, farmer, has been a resident of St. Charles since 1860; having purchased eighty acres of land on
Sec. 23, in 1859, he settled here with his family the following year. He subsequently bought eighty acres more
on Sec. 26, adjoining the first purchase; his farm lies half on either side of the St. Charles and Winona road;
is very nearly level, and is a sight with its neat buildings and other improvements, to delight the vision of a
tidy agriculturist. Willis Gates, father of this subject, was born in Ackworth, New Hampshire, and married Miss
Almira Hulett, of Weathersfield, Vermont. He settled on a farm in Elizabethtown, Essex county, New York, where
Reuben Gates was born on July 28, 1826. He assisted his father on the farm and in the operation of a sawmill, attending
the common school of his native town. At twenty four years old he purchased a farm, and has always been a tiller
of the soil. On March 11, 1851, he was married to Eliza Wakefield; her father, Johnathan Wakefield, was born in
New Hampshire. and her mother, Rebecca Haven, was a descendant of Richard Haven, Who emigrated from England to
America in 1640, and was born at Newport, Rhode Island. Mr. and Mrs. Gates were members of the Baptist church in
New York, and still cherish the faith of that sect. In public affairs Mr. Gates affiliates with the republican
party, always has and expects to; he was assessor of St. Charles township in 1870, and supervisor one year. Two
children complete the family circle. Erford E., the eldest, was born December 19, 1857; he married Eva W. Leonard,
and is settled on a farm on Sec. 26, near his father. Lillie O. was born April 17, 1853; she married Dr. C. S.
Dixon and resides at Somonauk, Illinois.
FROM:
The History of Winona County
Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc.
BY: A. T. Andreas
H. H. Hill and Company, Publishers
Chicago 1883.
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