When Solomon Eli Gates was born on 30 July 1835, in Mount Pleasant, Brant, Ontario, Canada, his father, Hiram Gates, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Maria Sayles, was 27. He married Mary Zerelda Shimmin on 24 July 1869, in Willits, Mendocino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Cholame Judicial Township, San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1900 and Judicial Township 3, Fresno, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 March 1922, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Fresno, Fresno, California, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
English: variant of Gate with plural or excrescent -s. The English surname Gate has three possible origins: (i) a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘gate’ (Old English geat, dative plural gatum), denoting someone who lived by a gate or set of gates (possibly sometimes an occupational name for a gate keeper; compre Yates); (ii) in northern England, the East Midlands, and East Anglia, a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘street, road, path’ (Old Norse gata) for someone who lived by a road (compare Street ); (iii) a nickname meaning ‘goat’, from northern Middle English gate, gait (Old English gāt, Old Norse geitr).
Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Barrière (see Barriere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HYRUM GATES Source: Seventies Record. 2nd Quorum, Biographical Sketches, LDS Church Archives, Pg 232. Grammar has been standardized. I, Hyrum [Gates], the son of Henry and Mary Gate …
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