HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 1857, in Chicago, 111. In 1881 he was ordained to the ministry; and haa been a missionary in China. In 1894-1902 he was president of a college at Harpoot; and since that time has been president of a college at Constantinople, Turkey. He is the author of A Christian Business Man.
Gates, Edward P., lawyer, jurist. In 18991903 he was judge of the sixteenth circuit court of Missouri at Kansas City. Gates, Eleanor,
journalist,
author,
was
born Sept. 26, 1875, in Shakopee, Minn. She has been on the staff of newspapers in San Francisco and Oakland, Cal. She is the author of The Biography of a Prairie Girl; The Plow Woman; Good Night; and other works. Gates, Mrs. Ellen M. Huntington, author, poet, was born in Torrington, Conn. She is the author of Treasures of the Kurium, a collection of her poems; The Dark; and To the Unborn Peoples. Gates, Elmer, psychologist, inventor, scientist, author, was born in 1859 in Dayton, Ohio. He received a thorough education in public and private schools; and was alinterested in experimental study of
ways the
natural
sciences,
especially in psychology. He is the founder and director of the Elmer Gates laboratory of psychology and psychurgy at Chevy
Chase, Md. He has four laboratories and eighteen assistants. He is the inventor of the electric loom; and the dramaquelic and magnetic gold and iron separators. He is the author of numerous articles; and of Psychology and Psychurgy, in three volumes. Gates, George Augustus, educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Jan. 24, 1851, in Topsham, Vt. He is a clergyman of the congregational church. In 1887-1901 he was president of Iowa college; and since 1902 has been president of the Pomona college at Claremont, Cal. He is the author of A Foe to American Schools. Gates, Horatio, soldier, was born in 1738 in England. He was the first adjutant-genscientific
army; and was made In 1777 he had command of the army at Bemis Heights, N.Y. and Stillwater; and in 1780 of the army at Camden, S.C. He died in 1806 in New York. Gates, James Leslie, merchant, was bom Dec. 22, ]850, in Essex county, N.Y. At the age of sixteen he was foreman of a logging camp on the Black river. He was one of the most successful lumbermen of that eral of the continental major-general in 1776.
region felling as many as forty million feet of logs a year. He is the president of the first national bank of Ladysville.
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Gates, Jasper C, lawyer, author, was bom 33, 1850, in Pleasantville, Pa. Since 1876 he has practiced law in Detroit, Mich.; and since 1894 has been instructor in law at the Detroit college of law. He is the author of Gates' Cases on Evidence; and Gates' Cases on Real Property. Gates, Mrs. Josephine Scribner, litterateur, author, was born Sept. 12, 1859, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. In 1879 she graduated from the public schools of Toledo, Ohio. She is the author of The Story of Live Dolls; More About Live Dolls; The Story of the Lost Doll; The Dolls' House Party; and oth-
March
er works.
Gates, Louis Edwards, educator, author, 23, 1860, in Warsaw, N.Y. Sinse 1896 he has been assistant professor of English at Harvard university. He is the author of Selections from Jeflfrey; Selections from Newman Selections from Matthew Arnold; and Three Studies in Litera-
was born March
ture.
Gates, Lowell Mason, physician, surgeon, was born March 26, 1852, in Scott, Pa. In 1876 and 1879 he graduated with the degrees of B.S. and M.S. from Hinsdale college; and in 1878 received the degree of M.D. from the medical department of the university of Michigan. Since 1879 he haa practiced his profession in Scranton, Pa. He has been president of the Lackawanna counand president of the ty medical society; Scranton clinical and pathological society. He is also director of the board of trade real estate company. Gates, Merrill Edwards, educator, lecturer, college president, was born April 6, 1848, In 1882-80 he was presin Warsaw, N.Y. ident of Eutgers college; and in 1880 was elected to the presidency of Amherst colHe is president of the American mislege. sionary association; and has made public addresses in twenty-five different states of the union. Gates, Owen Hamilton, educator, librarian, was born Oct. 18, 1863, in Tinmouth, Vt. In 1891 he was ordained to the ministry. Since 1902 he has been an instructor of Hebrew at the Andover theological seminary. In 1903-05 he was assistant librarian; and since 1805 has been librarian of that instidirector,
.
tution.
Gates, Seth Merrill, lawyer, journalist, congreaaman, was born Oct. 16, 1800, in WinHe was elected to the New York field, N.Y. state legislature in 1832, declining a re-elecIn 1S38 he became editor and protion. prietor of the Le Roy Gazette. In 1839-43 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh conHe died Aug. 24, 1877,"ih Warsaw, greases. N.Y. Gates, Mrs. Susa Young, journalist, publisher, author, was born March 18, 1856, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1889 she founded the Young Woman's Journal of Salt Lake City; of which she was editor and publisher
