Lamoille

GATES, Calvin Leo

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, pp 198-199

Calvin Leo GATES, lumber manufacturer, Morrisville [Lamoille County, 
Vermont], was born 19 March 1858 at Hyde Park [Lamoille County, Vermont], son 
of Benjamin Nathan and Delia (WHITTIER) GATES. Educated at Lamoille Central 
Academy, Hyde Park. Was employed six years by Western Union Telegraph 
Company; has followed farming in Vermont; was hotel keeper and liveryman in 
Kansas [could be Kansas in Bennington County, Vermont, but since the subject 
was a freighter in Colorado, the author could mean the State of Kansas]; 
proved up government lands and freighter in Colorado; proprietor of 
Morrisville and Stowe [both in Lamoille County] stage line six years; at 
present manager of Morrisville Lumber and Power Company. Democrat; 
represented Morristown [also in Lamoille County] in the Legislature 1904, the 
first Democrat elected in Morristown in fifty-four years; has been member of 
Democratic state committee twelve years; has been lister, school director, 
and at present is chairman of the board of selectmen of Morristown. 
Universalist. Member of Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 8, Free & Accepted Masons; 
Tucker Chapter No. 15, Royal Arch Masons; Coral Chapter, Order of Eastern 
Star; Lamoille Commandery No. 13, Knights Templar; Mt. Sinai Temple, Ancient 
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and Rathbore Lodge, Knights 
of Pythias. In 1882 he [Calvin Leo GATES] married [Miss?] Abbie L. BULLARD 
of Hyde Park [Lamoille County, Vermont]; they have three children: Mary 
Delia, Marjorie Fluella, and Whittier Bullard.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly