Biographical Sketch of Daniel E. Cates, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Daniel E. Cates, a prominent merchant of Webster county, Mo., was born 
in Bedford county, Tenn., October 2, 1835, and is a son of John S. and
Elizabeth (Hime) Cates.  The father was a son of Thomas Cates, and was
born in Tennessee, on the way from North Carolina to Tennessee, his 
birth occurring on the 12th of January 1808, and his death June 1, 
1880.  His wife was born in Bedford county, Va., December 25, 1809. She
is yet hale and hearty, and is living in Bedford county, Tenn.  Both
parents were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for many
years, and the father was a Mason (joined 1847) and a member of the 
I. O. O. F. (1846).  He was a stone mason and a farmer by occupation,
and was very skillful at both callings.  The Cates family are of Eng-
lish descent, and the grandfather, Thomas, was born in North Carolina,
and died in Bedford county, Tenn., when the subject of this sketch was 
a young boy.  There were eleven children born to the marriage of John 
S. Cates and Elizabeth Hime, the following of whom are living: Mary E.,
widow of Pascal Brown; John R.; Martha J., widow of J. M. Rives; Daniel
E.; Joseph H.; Finetti F., wife of J. M. Thomas; Locadia R., wife of 
J. B. Dwyer; Justinna E., wife of D. H. Dwyer; and Caldonia C., wife of
John F. Dwyer.  Those deceased are James P. and Giles P.  Daniel E.
Cates was in his twenty-fourth year when he married Miss Sarah L. Evans
a daughter of A. H. and Ellen C. (Holt) Evans, who were born in Tenn-
essee April 6, 1818 and August 27, 1814, and died in their native state
July 1, 1880 and June 26, 1868, respectively.  Mrs. Cates was born in
Bedford county, Tenn., November 3, 1840 and is the mother of three
children: Zarilda F., born January 23, 1860, the wife of J. W. White-
hurst, a merchant of Republic, Mo.; J. H., who was born March 9, 1868,
and is engaged in the mercantile business with his father; and Giles
G., who was born January 12, 1876, and resides at home.  After his 
marriage Mr. Cates first turned his attention to farming, which he con-
tinued to follow until coming to Missouri, in the fall of 1883, since
which time he has been engaged in the mercantile business in Niangua,
where he has acquired a large and lucrative trade.  He was engaged in
merchandising during the war, and although he had his goods taken from
him twice, he has accumulated considerable of this world's property.
He is a Republican in politics, and he and wife are members of the 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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