Sacramento County Biographies

JAMES B. GATES

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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DRY CREEK TOWNSHIP. 
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	lives five miles from Galt, his Post Office, and twenty-seven 
miles from Sacramento. He was born in Onondaga County, New York, in 1817, where 
he remained till 1833; he then moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and engaged in teaching 
school for two years, when he returned to Oneida Institute, where he studied for 
two years. In 1849 he moved to Monroe, New York, and followed the livery 
business; then came to California and followed mining and farming. In 1862 he 
went to England, returning in 1863. Mr. Gates married Levina Thomas, a native of 
Devonshire, England, in 1864. Mr. Gates has held the office of Justice of the 
Court of Sessions for Sacramento County. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.