L. M. Gates

GATES, SMILEY

Posted By: Jacie (email)
Date: 3/30/2008 at 09:11:59

1878 History of Cedar Co. Sugar Creek twp pg 720.
Gates, L. M., farmer and clergyman in United Brethren Church, Sec 25, P.O. Wilton. Owns 80 acres of land valued at $75 per acre. Born in Cambria Co., Penn, in 1845 came to Iowa in 1869, removed to his present farm in 1874. Married D. Smiley in 1869, she was born in Clearfield co., Penn in 1847. Have two children- Jennie M. and Etta G. have lost two, Franklin and Ida B. Republican.