Early Life
Frederick TAYLOR GATES, son of Granville and Sarah Jane (Bowers) GATES, was born 2 July, 1853 in Maine, NY, Broome County, NY. Granville was a Baptist minister. Frederick's neighbor and uncle was Cyrus Gates a cartographer, abolishtionist and local judge. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1877, and from the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1880. From 1880 to 1888 he served as pastor of the Central Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He left the ministry and was appointed the secretary of the newly formed American Baptist Education Society, where he championed a Baptist university in Chicago to fill a void that existed in Baptist education.
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