Gates, Sumner – d. 1900

GATES

Posted By: JCGS Volunteer
Date: 10/14/2010 at 19:28:35

Sumner Gates is dead. He died Saturday afternoon and was buried Monday afternoon, the funeral services being held at the house. The cause was blood poisoning, and for two months deceased suffered much pain. When men like Sumner Gates die, the world has lost. He was in every sense a man with whom it was a pleasure to live in neighborly relations. He was a modest man and somewhat reticent, but he never had it in his heart to do his fellow man an injury. One of the richest men in Jasper county, he was never ostentatious. What is even better, he was never miserly. He was never inclined to err except on the side of mercy. If he thought he had the best of a business transaction, he would pay more than he had agreed. He took advantage of no man. A large employer of labor, no man ever had reason to complain of Sumner Gates. Would that there were more like him.
Source: Newton Herald; August 10, 1900, page 8