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GATES, Benjamin

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, p 198

Benjamin GATES, lawyer, Montpelier [Washington County, Vermont], was born 06 
August 1873 at Pittsford [Rutland County, Vermont], son of Amos L. and 
Isabella (JOHNSON) GATES. Educated at Brandon Graded School [Rutland 
County], Montpelier Seminary, and the Law Department of the University of 
Michigan. Admitted to the Vermont bar in 1903. Enlisted in Company A, First 
Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, served as a private during the 
Spanish-American War at Fort Knox [Waldo County], Maine, and at Camp Alger, 
Virginia [just outside Washington, D. C.], and was honorably discharged in 
1898. Republican; was deputy clerk of Washington County Court from 1899 to 
1901; second assistant state librarian from 1902 to 1903; city grand juror 
from 1904 to 1906; state's attorney for Washington County 1906 to 1910. 
Methodist. Member of the Modern Woodmen of America, Knights of Pythias, 
Masons, Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier Historical Society, The Club 
(a literary institution); Vermont and Washington County Bar Associations; and 
state lecturer and counsel of the local camp in Modern Woodmen of America. 
In 1904 he [Benjamin GATES] married [Miss?] Bernice Maude HUNT of Montpelier.

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