Brief Life History of Samuel Bertholf
When Samuel Bertholf Gates was born on 13 June 1849, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Samuel Gates III, was 45 and his mother, Lydia Downer, was 38. He lived in Weber, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 24 December 1861, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 12, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Saml Gates in household of Saml Gates, "United States Census, 1860"
- Samuel, "BillionGraves Index"
- Samuel Bertolf Gates, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
Name Meaning
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.
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