Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . rneath. Within themonument, and lining its two stories, are altorilievo decorations in bronze, representing his-torical and allegorical scenes connected with thecampaign of Burgoyne. The corner-stone of thisstructure was laid on 17 Oct., 1877, when poemsand addresses were delivered by Horatio William Curtis, James Grant Wilson. Al-fred B. Street, and William L. Stone. See Stones Campaign of Burgovne (Albany,1877), and Bancrofts History of the UnitedStates (6 vols., New York, 1884). GATES, Setli Merrill, lawyer, b. in Winf
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . rneath. Within themonument, and lining its two stories, are altorilievo decorations in bronze, representing his-torical and allegorical scenes connected with thecampaign of Burgoyne. The corner-stone of thisstructure was laid on 17 Oct., 1877, when poemsand addresses were delivered by Horatio William Curtis, James Grant Wilson. Al-fred B. Street, and William L. Stone. See Stones Campaign of Burgovne (Albany,1877), and Bancrofts History of the UnitedStates (6 vols., New York, 1884). GATES, Setli Merrill, lawyer, b. in Winfield,Herkimer co., N. Y., 16 1800: d. in Y., 24 Aug., 1877. He studied law. was admittedto the bar in 1827, and began practice in. Le was elected to the state legislature in 1832. butdeclined a re-election. During this session he wasinstrumental in procuring a charter for the firstrailroad in western New York, being a portion ofthe present New York Central. In 1838 he pur-chased the Le Roy Gazette, which he edited for. 616 GATES GATES several years. Be was elected to congress in 1838,and I in 1840. On the expiration of his ssional service, he removed to Warsaw, andtinued his Law-practice, On account o( hiss ility to slavery, a reward of $500 was offeredsouthern planter for his delivery in Savan-I or alive. In 1848 he was the Free-soil. late for lieutenant-governor of Now York,- defeated. Be drew up the protest of theWhig members of congress in 1843 against the an-satioD of Texas, erroneously attributed in sev-eral histories to Mr. Adamss pen: and thecorre-lence between Mr, Gates and ex-PresidenlJohn Quincy Adams, who signed the protest, isstill in the possession of his son.—His son. Mer-rill Edwards, educator, b. in Warsaw, N. Y.,6 \- ril, 1848, was graduated at the University of.; nester in L870, Be became principal of theiy academy in 1870, president of Rutgers
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