Isaac Gates

ssac Gates was the husband of Mary Margaret (Troxell) Gates 1819-1909

He was the son of John Caleb Gates and Elizabeth (Geaurney) Gates

.... Isaac Gates, father, was born in Berks county on September 7, 1818, and died on his farm in White township, September 26, 1876. He had led a very active life, begin engaged in farming and lumbering many years. He was quite an extensive farmer, and owned a tract of land containing nineteen hundred acres of farm and timber territory, lying in White and Chest townships. He was extensively engaged in the lumber business, owning and operating a saw-mill, besides sending large quantities of lumber by raft and floats to Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He was a careful and successful business man, and had accumulated quite a competency.
In political faith he was a republican, and in religious belief a member of the United Brethren church, of which he was a liberal supporter; however, he did not confine his liberality to this church, but was deeply interested and very active in everything that was for the benefit of the community in which he lived.
His union with Miss Mary, a daughter of John Troxell, a farmer of Reade township, this county, resulted in the birth of eight children, five sons and three daughters: Elizabeth, the wife of Rev. Daniel Strayer, of the United Brethren church of White township; John C., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this book; Lafayette M., a farmer, of Muscatine county, Iowa, who is also a local minister in the United Brethren church; Joel A.; Isaac W., a farmer, residing in Coalport, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania; Perry C., also a farmer, residing in Coalport; Mary M., the wife of J. S. McKee, a farmer of White township, and Hannah, who died in childhood.
( Biographical & Portrait Cyclpedia of Cambria Co., PA, page 125)