Among those who, having spent a long and busy life in eastern states, have come to California for their declining years, are W. J. Gates and wife.\u00a0 The former was born in Richmond, Berkshire Co., Mass., May 19, 1815, and was married to the latter, who was then Emily P. Hall, in Ohio, March 4, 1842.\u00a0 Mrs. Gates was born in Ohio, but her family came also from New England.\u00a0 Mr. Gates was educated in select schools in Massachusetts and spent a year at Oberlin college.\u00a0 He also taught school for a time.\u00a0 After marriage Mr. and Mr. Gates lived in Ohio until 1853, when they moved to southwestern Iowa, then in the wilderness still inhabited by the Indians.\u00a0 There they followed farming until they came to Redlands to reside, arriving in California Christmas eve, 1887.\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Gates had been here a year and a half before, on a short visit to a son then residing in California.\u00a0 The town of Tabor, the place in which Mr. and Mrs. Gates lived in Iowa, was John Brown\u2019s headquarters during a portion of the border slavery troubles, and was the scene of some stirring events in which Mr. Gates was a participant.<\/p>\n
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Mr. and Mrs. Gates have eight living children, three of whom are living in California, a son in Redlands, a daughter at home and another daughter at Dos Palos. Of the remaining children one is living in Kansas, one in Nebraska, one in Iowa, one at Ashtabula, Ohio, and one in Omaha.\u00a0 Mr. and Mrs. Gates are members of the Terrace Congregational church.\u00a0 Since they came to Redlands the 55th<\/sup> anniversary of their marriage has come and gone, finding them both in the enjoyment of health in old age and the peaceful remembrances of a life well spent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Source: Illustrated Redlands<\/em>, p. 31.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20745,"template":"","photo_tag":[],"gallery":[176],"awards_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/20744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/photo"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/20744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"photo_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo_tag?post=20744"},{"taxonomy":"gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gallery?post=20744"},{"taxonomy":"awards_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards_category?post=20744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}