Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Gates, Stephen A. , M.D. September 7, 1855 - 
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STEPHEN A. GATES, M.D., practicing physician, Millbrook village, was born at 
Albany, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1855.  

His parents, A. A. and Jane (Averil) Gates, were natives of Otsego Co., N.Y., 
where the mother died when 

the son was but two years of age.  The father died in 1872.  Mr. Gates 
attended the ward schools of Albany 

until he was 17 years of age, after which he was a student at the high school 
of Otseog, and was engaged 

in the profession of teaching nearly three years.  On reaching man's estate he 
began the study of his 

profession in the office and under the direction of Dr. J.W. Still, of Morris, 
Otsego Co., N.Y., where he 

read medicine one year, going thence to Buffalo to attend a course of medical 
lectures.  He next went to 

Albany for the same purpose, and studied in the office of Dr. J.s. Mosher 
until the spring of 1878, when 

he completed his studies and received his diploma.  He remained in Morris 
during the first year after 

entering upon the career of a medical practitioner, and met with flattering 
success; but owing to ill 

health, relinquished his business, with all its promise, to seek another field 
better adapted to the 

exigencies of the case.  In 1879 he came to Michigan and engaged in teaching 
in Ionia and Montcalm 

Counties, where he occupied nearly two years, when he resumed the practice of 
medicine in Ionia County, 

coming shortly after to Mecosta County, and fixing his residence at Millbrook 
in the fall of 1881.  His 

business has increased satisfactorily from the outset, and he has an extending 
practice and a permanent 

place in the confidence of the community that patronizes him.

Dr. Gates was married in Ionia County, July 21, 1882, to Arminda E., daughter 
of John and Eliza Taft, who 

was born in Ionia County, whither her parents removed from New York, their 
native State.  One child was 

born of the marriage of the Dr. and Mrs. Gates:  Myrtie M., born July 8, 1881, 
died July 16, 1883.

Dr. Gates is an adherent of the Republican party, and himself and wife are 
members of the M.E. Church.

Additional Comments:
8813 Portrait & Bio Alumbum of Mecosta Co., MI.

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