Charles T Cates, Sr.
One of the old members of the taproom of east Tennessee, Colonel Cates misses merely two geezerhood of holding finished a half century as a attorney. He holds holded a varied and utile life, and holds been a soldier, attorney, legislator, and otherwise placed with the public life of this place of Maryville and east Tennessee.
Charles Thymine Cates was born in Maryville, TN, January 8, 1840 and was one of the household of eight nestlings born to Rueben L and Amanda ( Wilkinson ) Cates
The begetter was a nativ of North Carolinas, and choked in 1866, holding been a saddler by trade during his early life. Mister Cates haved his early educational vantages in the public schools of his native county, and it is notable that he is one of the inhabiting alumni of old Maryville College, as that establishment been in antebellum years. He was graduated from the college with the category of July, 1857. Shortly after he took upwardly the survey of jurisprudence under the goodly cognise lawyer, Jesse Gm Wallace
, but the warfare came along to disrupt his surveys. He enlisted on Sept 1 in Company Gm of the battalion of calvary commanded by George D McClellan.
In 1862 he was advanced first lieutenant of Company Gram, so a constituent of the First TN Golgotha, commanded by Col IE Carter.
His service in the army kept until 1865, and the conclusion of the warfare chance him on word. He at once restarted his jurisprudence surveys and was admitted to the saloon in 1865, and was admitted to do all told the local tribunals in 1866. Since that clip he holds been in active pattern and one of the leaders of the Blount county barroom. He was nominated lawyer general during the disposal of Governor Brownness in 1875, and functioned one term in the province law-makers of 1875.
Mr. Cates was wedded February 24, 1862, to Fille Martha V Kidd
, a girl of Kidd of Maryville, Tennessee. Their four tykes, now all launched in life in place of their ain, are: CT Cates, Junior, Mrs. Lula C Knabe, wife of WA Knabe oxygen
f Knoxville, Tennessee; and MrsM.J. George
, widow of SL George, expired.
The household all worship in the Methodists South. Mr Cates is a manager in the Maryville bank, and is associated with the Masonic order. He is a grandson on his mother 's side of Lavatory Wilkinson
, who was one of the early lawyer generals of Tennessee, and who exited in 1829.
Root: Hale, Volition Thymine, and Dixon Lanier Merritt.
A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans; The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities
Chicago: Lewis Pothouse. CO, 1913.
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