Representative Levi S. Gates View All Years

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Levi S. Gates

Delaware County

LEVI S. GATES was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, May 23, 1838; he died at Omaha, Nebraska, October 11, 1898. Mr. Gates had resided near Manchester, Iowa, during the last forty years, and had become one of the best known and most prominent dairymen in the State. He was appointed State Dairy Commissioner by Gov. L. M. Shaw at the expiration of the term of Hon. W. K. Boardman. Mr. Gates was a member of the house during the session of the Twenty-first General Assembly, where he had charge of the bill for the act creating the office of State Dairy Commissioner. He was also largely instrumental in the formation of the State Dairy Association, in 1875, and was quite prominent in all matters connected with the agricultural interests of our State. He had gone to Omaha to attend the session of the National Dairy Association on the Exposition grounds, and while addressing that body dropped dead from apoplexy.

House District 53