Gates, Samuel H.

GATES, MILLS, LOREY, DELTE, GOODMAN

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 6/30/2019 at 07:10:18

SAMUEL H. GATES

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 659:

"SAMUEL H. GATES resides on section 16, Center Township, his farm comprising the west half of the southwest quarter of that section. He purchased this farm about July 4, 1853, of Samuel C. Thompson, and settled upon it in 1855. The only improvement was a log cabin built by Mr. Thompson. Mr. Gates was born in Morgan County, Ohio, May 13, 1824. When twelve years of age he removed with his parents to Athens County, where he grew to manhood and lived until he came to Iowa. His father, Stephen Gates, was a native of New Jersey, and removed to Ohio when quite young. The last years of his life were passed on Lawrence County, where he died in the fall of 1860. Samuel's mother, Jane Mills, was a native of New York, and she died in 1866. They had seven children that grew to maturity; three are now living -- John N., in Clarke County, Iowa; Stephen, in Winfield, Kansas, and our subject. The latter married in Ohio, in 1846. Mrs. Gates was formerly Charlotte Lorey, born also in Morgan County. Her parents were Silas and Maria (Gates) Lorey, the former a native of New Jersey, and the latter of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gates have had eight children, three sons and five daughters; five of the children are living -- Samuel A., an attorney at Leon; John N., also an attorney and associated with his brother; Eliza Jane, wife of John H. Delte, of Franklin Township, Decatur County; Alice E., wife of Aaron Goodman, of Center Township, and Katie May. The deceased are Lemuel, the eldest child, born in 1847, and died in 1884; Addie M., died at the age of twenty-two years; Fannie, died at the age of sixteen years. Politically Mr. Gates was reared a Whig, and joined the Republican party upon its organization. In 1876 he became identified with the Greenback party, with which he has since affiliated. Religiously he was reared a Methodist, but is now independent in his views. The father of Mr. Gates died at the age of forty-nine years; the mother died at the age of seventy-one years at the home of her son Samuel, with whom she had lived seventeen years. But few remain of those who resided here when Mr. Gates came, and soon all will be gone, and the record of the lives of the pioneers will remain only in the memory of their children and in the pages of history."

Photograph courtesy of Decatur County Historical Museum, Leon IA, July of 2015

(Submitted to the Decatur County GenWeb site by Christy Jay, email: Jaygenie@aol.com)