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FREDERICK T. GATES PAPERS, 1877-1939

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COLLECTION CONTEXT


SUMMARY

Creator: Gates, Frederick Taylor (1853-1929) and Rockefeller Foundation Extent:
4.13 Cubic Feet 4 letter document boxes, 1 half-letter document box, and 1
oversize box Language: English .


BACKGROUND

Scope and content:

Records consist of correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, memoranda, manuscript
drafts, and a ledger.

Important subjects in the collection include religion, economy, medicine,
philanthropy, labor, World War I, the China Medical Board, the General Education
Board, The Rockefeller Institute, The University of Chicago, Consolidation Coal
Co., the Merritt Case, education, homeopathy, agriculture, meningitis, diabetes,
and theology.

Among the correspondents are: L. M. Bowers; Simon Flexner; J. J. Jesserand;
Harry Pratt Judson; Frederick T. Gates; John D. Rockefeller, Sr.; John D.
Rockefeller, Jr.; Charles W. Eliot; and Wallace Buttrick.

Biographical / historical:

Frederick T. Gates (1853-1929) was born in Broome County, New York. The son of a
school teacher who read medicine and later became an ordained Baptist Minister,
Gates spent the first fourteen years of his life in small villages and towns in
New York. In 1867 his father joined the American Baptist Home Mission Society
and the family moved to Kansas where Gates attended Highland University, a
preparatory school. At fifteen he taught school and for the next five years had
such various jobs as selling harrows to farmers, clerking in a village dry goods
store and later in a bank. In 1873, he was admitted to advanced standing in the
classical course at the University of Rochester, a small Baptist school. Instead
of remaining in Rochester, he returned to Kansas for two years of independent
study before he rejoined his class in 1875. On graduation from Rochester, he
enrolled in the Rochester Baptist Theological Seminary and graduated in 1880.

His first and only pastorate was the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. In 1884 the church changed its name to the Central Baptist Church and
moved to new buildings. Gates remained until 1888, when he became the fund
raiser in a campaign to support the Baptist school, Owatonna Academy in
Minnesota. After a successful campaign he was influential in the formation of
the American Baptist Education Society and became its first Secretary. He moved
to Racine, Wisconsin, and then to Morgan Park, Illinois, to carry on further
fund raising activities, this time for a college which would grow into the
University of Chicago.

It was in this capacity that he became acquainted with John D. Rockefeller, who
invited him in 1891 to assist with his charities and investigate his appeals.
This grew in time into a dual function of investigating and then managing some
of Mr. Rockefeller, Sr.'s business interests.

Trustee of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Trustee of the
General Education Board, 1902-1928, and Chairman of the Board 1907-1917,
Chairman of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm
Disease, 1909-1914, Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1913-1923, and member
of the International Health Commission, the China Medical Board and the Peking
Medical College, Gates resigned from business activities in 1912 and devoted
himself to these philanthropies until 1928.

Acquisition information: The papers of Frederick T. Gates were deposited with
the Rockefeller Foundation Archives in 1955 and 1961 by Russell C. Gates and
Dorothy Gates Elsmith. Processing information:

Processing was completed as of February 2, 1970. Processing Level 3: Standard
Processing. All material is available in acid free manuscript boxes and folders.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged alphabetically up until box 4. The alphabetical
files are followed by three folders of abstracts, and an autobiography,
scrapbook, and ledger. Gates' s own system has been retained.

Letters are frequently filed by correspondent.


INDEXED TERMS

Subjects: Philanthropy
World War I
Labor
Diabetes
Theology
Agriculture
Alternative medicine
Meningitis
Economics
Education
Religion
Social service


ACCESS AND USE

Restrictions:

Open for research. Brittle or damaged items are available at the discretion of
RAC. Researchers interested in accessing digital media (floppy disks, CDs, DVDs,
etc.) or audiovisual material (audio cassettes, VHS, etc.) in this collection
must use an access surrogate. The original items may not be accessed because of
preservation concerns. To request an access surrogate be made, or if you are
unsure if there is an access surrogate, please contact an archivist.

Terms of access:

Rockefeller Foundation has title, copyright, and literary rights in the
collection, in so far as it holds them. Rockefeller Archive Center has authority
to grant permission to cite and publish archival material from the collection.

Location of this collection:
Rockefeller Archive Center
15 Dayton Avenue
Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591, United States
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COLLECTION


FREDERICK T. GATES PAPERS, 1877-1939

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Collection ID FA028 Total components 82 Items available online 0 Last indexed
2024-08-02


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COLLECTION CONTENTS

 * Lyman Abbott, 1915
   Box 1, Folder 1
 * E. Benjamin Andrews, 1908
   Box 1, Folder 2
 * "Atlantic Monthly", 1911
   Box 1, Folder 3
 * Baptist Church of Montclair, 1892
   Box 1, Folder 4
 * James Barton, 1905
   Box 1, Folder 5
 * John A. Broadus, 1877-1927
   Box 1, Folder 6
 * Wallace Buttrick, 1923
   Box 1, Folder 7
 * Florence A. Cahoon, 1908
   Box 1, Folder 8
 * "Capital and Labor", undated
   Box 1, Folder 9
 * China Medical Board, 1910-1917
   Box 1, Folder 10
 * W. N. Clark, 1909
   Box 1, Folder 11
 * Clippings, undated
   Box 1, Folder 12
 * "Competition vs. Cooperation", undated
   Box 1, Folder 13
 * Letters of Congratulation and Complement, 1897-1926
   Box 1, Folder 14
 * Congregational Church of Montclair, 1924
   Box 1, Folder 15
 * Consolidation Coal Company, 1915
   Box 1, Folder 16
 * "Corporations", undated
   Box 1, Folder 17
 * Correspondence, 1929
   Box 1, Folder 18
 * Harvey Cushing, 1907-1921
   Box 1, Folder 19
 * George H. Doran and Company, 1918-1919
   Box 1, Folder 20
 * Charles W. Elliot, 1910-1925
   Box 1, Folder 21-22
 * Simon Flexner, 1908-1926
   Box 1, Folder 23
 * "The Financial Situation", 1903
   Box 2, Folder 24
 * "A Forgotten Episode", undated
   Box 2, Folder 25
 * "Fundamental Principles of Philanthropy", 1908
   Box 2, Folder 26
 * Gates Portrait, 1920-1921
   Box 2, Folder 27
 * General Education Board, 1903-1926
   Box 2, Folder 28
 * Golf, 1912
   Box 2, Folder 29
 * T. W. Goodspeed, 1907-1921
   Box 2, Folder 30
 * Health, 1906-1912
   Box 2, Folder 31
 * High School Fraternities, 1903-1905
   Box 2, Folder 32
 * Homeopathy, 1911
   Box 2, Folder 33
 * Hookworm, 1913-1914
   Box 2, Folder 34
 * David F. Houston, 1911
   Box 2, Folder 35
 * Insulin Gift, 1923
   Box 2, Folder 36
 * Italy, undated
   Box 2, Folder 36A
 * J. J. Jesserand, 1916-1917
   Box 2, Folder 37
 * Harry Pratt Judson, 1908-1923
   Box 2, Folder 38
 * Landis Decision, 1907
   Box 2, Folder 39
 * "The Latin Race", undated
   Box 2, Folder 40
 * S. A. Lattimore, 1911-1912
   Box 2, Folder 41
 * H. C. Mabie, 1915
   Box 2, Folder 42
 * Shailer Matthews, 1916
   Box 2, Folder 43
 * Medicine, undated
   Box 2, Folder 44
 * Dwight R. Meigs, 1916
   Box 2, Folder 45
 * S. J. Meltzer, 1914
   Box 2, Folder 46
 * Merritt Pamphlet, 1912
   Box 2, Folder 47
 * Letter on Missions, undated
   Box 2, Folder 48
 * Missouri Pacific Railroad, 1911
   Box 3, Folder 49
 * William C. Morey, 1914
   Box 3, Folder 50
 * A. S. Ochs, 1912
   Box 3, Folder 51
 * Robert C. Ogden, 1908
   Box 3, Folder 52
 * Walter H. Page, 1906-1922
   Box 3, Folder 53
 * Sir Horace Plunkett, 1907-1909
   Box 3, Folder 54
 * Polish Relief, 1915
   Box 3, Folder 55
 * Albert C. Ritchie, 1927
   Box 3, Folder 56
 * John D. Rockefeller, Sr., 1892-1927
   Box 3, Folder 57
 * John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1907-1926
   Box 3, Folder 58-59
 * Laura Spelman Rockefeller, 1892
   Box 3, Folder 60
 * The Rockefeller Foundation, 1920-1939
   Box 3, Folder 61
 * Rockefeller Institute, 1911-1931
   Box 3, Folder 62
 * Walter Rauschenbusch, 1909
   Box 3, Folder 63
 * St. John the Divine, 1923
   Box 3, Folder 64
 * Shanghai, undated
   Box 3, Folder 65
 * Albert Shaw, 1909
   Box 3, Folder 66
 * "The Spirit of True Religion", undated
   Box 3, Folder 67
 * Stanley Committee, 1911
   Box 3, Folder 68
 * Testimonials, undated
   Box 3, Folder 69
 * William R. Thayer, 1914-1916
   Box 3, Folder 70
 * "True Wealth", undated
   Box 3, Folder 71
 * University of Chicago, 1892-1908
   Box 3, Folder 72
 * University of Chicago, 1921
   Box 3, Folder 73
 * William Welch, 1911
   Box 4, Folder 74
 * W. C. Wilkinson, 1875
   Box 4, Folder 75
 * Andrew D. White, undated
   Box 4, Folder 76
 * Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), 1910
   Box 4, Folder 77
 * Gates Papers, 1916-1917
   Box 4, Folder 78
 * Gates on Policy, 1905-1926
   Box 4, Folder 79
 * American Baptist Education Society, 1888-1891
   Box 4, Folder 80
 * Autobiography, undated
   Box 4A, Folder 81
 * Clipping Scrapbook, 1907-1917
   Box 5, Folder 82
 * Personal Ledger, 1894-1916
   Box 5, Folder 83