History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ust,1900, he was elected to his present positionof superintendent of public schools oi thecity of St. Paul, Minn., which he now so ac-cei)tably fills. Mr. Leviston, in politics, is aKepublican on national questions, but, be-cause of his occupation, has never taken anactive part in politics. In 1885 he was mar-ried to Nellie E. Currier, of EIntield, N. have two children—Alice, born 1897,and Kobert, born 1890. GATES, Jos
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ust,1900, he was elected to his present positionof superintendent of public schools oi thecity of St. Paul, Minn., which he now so ac-cei)tably fills. Mr. Leviston, in politics, is aKepublican on national questions, but, be-cause of his occupation, has never taken anactive part in politics. In 1885 he was mar-ried to Nellie E. Currier, of EIntield, N. have two children—Alice, born 1897,and Kobert, born 1890. GATES, Joseph A.—The president of thevillage of Keuyon, Minn., Joseph A. (jates,is a native of He was born Sep-tember 11, 187(», at Oronoco, Olmsted father is a well-to-do farmer in the coun-ty, now retired on his means, and living atRochester, Minn. The maiden name of Jos-ephs mother was Jane AYaldron. She is aNew York farmers daughter. Joseph A.(Jates obtained his early education in thecommon schools and his academic trainingwas received in the Rochester high school,from which he graduated in 1892. He grad- IIISTOUY OF Tin: CHEAT JOSEPH A. GATES. uateil fioiu the Medical Department of theTuiversity of Minnesota in 1805. He waspresident of the chiss, and during the schoolyear of 1893-4 and 1S94-5 he served as as-sistant to the professor of chemistry in theinstitution. After graduating in June, 1895,he settled at Kenron, and began success was immediate, and he has con-tinued there since he began, identifying hi ni-sei f with every interest of the 1898 he was elected a member of theboard of education, and in the two followingyears he was elected clerk of the board. In1898 he also formed a ]mrtnership with Eocknex, and A. C. Knudson, under thestyle of Gates, Eocknex & Comijany, andbought the Keuyon Leader, of which has since been the editor. The sameyear he was elected a director of the CitizensState Bank o
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