A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 
800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and 
Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes.  Printed For the 
Author.  1886.  Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 
Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, page 31.  [Jefferson County]

GUERDON GATES was born in New London, Conn. in 1796.  At the age of 
sixteen he started to go South, but being detained on his journey by a 
slight accident, he entered Washington College, where he graduated with 
honor.  He afterwards studied theology, but at what institution is not 
known.  He then filled a professorship in the college from which he had 
graduated, two or three years.  Having been set apart for the ministry, 
he moved to Bourbon county, Kentucky, about 1823, and was soon 
afterwards called to the care of the Baptist church in Paris.  Here he 
preached and conducted a female seminary about ten years.  In 1833 he 
moved to Mayslick in Mason county, where he remained two years. In 1835 
he moved to Louisville.  After this, he only preached occasionally.  He 
maintained an exalted Christian character, and was prominently connected 
with the benevolent institutions of the city more than twenty years.  He 
was a man of great simplicity of manners, and was much loved by a large 
circle of acquaintances.  He died about 1858.

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