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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. |