Benjamin
Butler
Gates
Born in Rutland, Vermont, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Benjamin Gates
and [mother unknown]
Husband of
Susannah (Alvord) Gates
— married
28 Jun 1829 in Clymer, Chautauqua, New York
[children unknown]
Died
at age 49
in Hamilton, Hancock County, Illinois, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Aug 2013
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Biography
Benjamin Butler Gates, born in March 1800 in Connecticut, was a son of Lydia (Butler) and Benjamin Gates (1774-1844).
He married 28 Jun 1829, in Pennsylvania, Susannah Alvord. They had 9 children, their first three born in Cass County, Michigan, the remainder in Lamoin and Hamilton, Illinois:
- Lydia Sally Gates (29 Jan 1831 - 8 Mar 1833)
- William Butler Gates (4 Jan 1833 - 31 Jul 1833)
- Alphonzo Samuel Gates, b. 17 Nov 1834, Cass County, Michigan; unmarried; d. 1906
- George Durando Gates, b. 17 Feb 1837, Lamoin, Illinois; married 31 Jan 1861 Helen M. Rockwell
- Edgar Mortimer Gates, b. 11 Aug 1839, Hamilton, Illinois; d. 29 Mar 1863
- Clement Eugene Gates (20 Nov 1841 - 21 Dec 1843)
- Mary Charlotte Gates (11 Mar 1844 - 5 Jul 1863)
- Rudolphus Benjamin Gates (11 Jan 1847 - 28 Oct 1848)
- Harriet Cecelia Gates, b. 23 May 1849; married 15 Oct 1872 Erastus Hall Humphrey
Benjamin Butler Gates was a mill-wright.
Benjamin Butler Gates died in Hamilton, Illinois, July 1849.
Sources
- A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord an Early Settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass. (1908), no. 1143: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdesce00alvo/page/408/mode/1up
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Marcia Loudon for creating WikiTree profile Gates-1368 through the import of BUTLER FAMILY-mfl-7-13.ged on Jul 30, 2013.
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