Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, McLean Co.

GUERDON W. GATES, McLean County, was born September, 13, 1855, in 
Louisville, Ky.  He is the eldest of two children, and the only one 
living, born to Lloyd W. and Frances E. (Ward) Gates, natives of 
Paris, Ky., and Susanville, Cal., respectively.  Lloyd W. Gates was 
an attorney, was engaged in the mercantile business, and later in the 
tobacco trade, and was county commissioner and attorney of McLean 
County.  He now resides near Louisville on a farm; he is the son of 
Rev. Guerdon Gates, a Baptist minister of Louisville, Ky., who 
married a Miss Rice, a native of Connecticut, all of English origin.  
Subject's mother, Frances E. Ward, was a daughter of William Ward, of 
California, who was engaged in mining and agriculture.  G. W. Gates 
was reared in Calhoun, received a good English education, attended 
Kentucky University two years.  He was deputy county clerk in 1875-76.  
In 1878, after returning from school, he commenced the study of law 
with his father, and was admitted to the bar January 15, 1879, by 
Benjamin P. Cissell, circuit judge.  He has followed his profession 
in Calhoun with much success.  He was married October 25, 1883, to 
Lizzie D. Houston, of McLean County, a daughter of Benjamin and 
Attie M. (Calhoun) Houston, who were born in Daviess and McLean 
Counties, Ky.

Gates Ward Rice Cissell Houston Calhoun
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Louisville-Jefferson-KY Paris-Bourbon-KY Susanville-Lassen-CA CT 
Daviess-KY

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