Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Adgate, Chester A. 1936
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 17 Aug 1936

Death Takes Former Ionia Business Men

Funeral services for Chester A. Adgate, of Saranac, will be attended at the 
home in Saranac Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock with Rev. John Gehring pastor of 
the Saranac Congregational church officiating.  Interment will be at Saranac 
cemetery.

Mr. Adgate died Sunday evening about 7 o’clock after an illness of seven weeks 
with a heart ailment.  He has not been active since May.  Surviving him are the 
widow, three daughters, Mrs. Vinnie Gates of Saranac, Mrs. Lydia Walters of 
Keene, and Mrs. Phena Smith of Berlin, and three sons, Earl of Lansing, Glenn, 
postmaster at Saranac, and John a Saranac merchant.  There are also surviving 
sixteen grandchildren including the daughters of Mrs. Mary Curtiss of Berlin 
who died in 1918, and three great-grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Adgate last April 1 observed the sixtieth anniversary of their 
marriage, which took place in Saranac, April 1, 1876.

Chester Adgate was the son of John Adgate whose father settled on an 80 acre 
tract in Ionia township which later became a part of the Kelsey farm.  John 
Adgate married Catherine Taft and bought a farm in Berlin township where 
Chester was born February 3, 1857.  He gained his early school educa- near the 
county farm.  As a youth he worked on farms on his own account until his father 
purchased 40 acres west of the home farm for him.  April 1, 1876 he was married 
to Nora Harwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Harwood, Berlin residents.

Mr. Adgate gradually increased his land holdings until he sold out and 
established a stock buying business and meat market in Ionia.  Later he 
purchased the Sessions farm, and in 1907 sold it to the county for a county 
home, thereafter moving to Saranac where he has since continued in buying and 
selling livestock.

Mr. Adgate, although he was always active in politics never held a county 
office.  He was a staunch democrat all his life and had served Berlin township 
as supervisor for five terms.  He also served Saranac as a village official.  
He resigned as supervisor of Berlin when he moved to Saranac.


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