BENJAMIN C. CATE
Benjamin C. Cate was born in New Hampshire, in Merrimac county, sixteen miles north of Concord. The date of his birth being October 18, 1849. He is a son of Miles H. Cate and Sarah (Sergeant) Cate. His first removal was to Henry county, Illinois. Settling here, he took charge of S. F. Oilman's stock farm two years, which gave him ideas of western stock raising, however before coming he had been engaged in stock extensively in New Hampshire. Upon coming to Cass county, he found the opening here a good one, and is one of Cass county's stock men and enterprising citizens. He was united July 4, 1872, with Ella T. Robinson, a native of New Hampshire, and daughter of E. W. Robinson, a farmer in that Slate. He is a member of the Congregational church, and in politics, he favors the Democratic Party.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 702.
