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 720 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY The family residence is at 119 Seventh street. Red "Wing. Mr. Gates' holdings include an eighty-acre farm near the city limits, known as "Sunny Brook Farm." This he conducts in connection with his other business. George E. Gates. Red Wing, collecting and insurance agent. was horn at Beloit, Wis., July 31, 1S.">2. son of Philander and Phoebe A. (Abbot) Gates. He was brought to Red Wing at the age of six years, and has many boyhood recollections of men and events long since passed into history. The public schools of that period gave him an opportunity for a good common school edu- cation, and as a youth he learned the tinner's trade. This he fol- lowed until 1896, when lie opened an establishment of his own. successfully conducting same for ten years. The confinement, together with the contact with the metallic fumes necessary in this business, undermined his health, and in 1006, at the advice of his physicians, he gave up his tinning store, and later engaged in the collecting and insurance business, performing all the de- tails usually attended to in such an office, Mr. Gates votes the Republican ticket, is a Baptist and a member of the Foresters and the Modern Samaritans, lie was married in this city, July 4. 1876, to Harriel Roberts, daughter of S. W. and Lucinda (fowl) Roberts, natives of Michigan. They came to Red Wing November 4. 1862, and for twenty years Air. Roberts engaged in the teaming business. Then he became a skilled veterinary sur- geon and in L883 went to Ellsworth, Wis., where he practiced his profession until the time of his death. His wife died December 5, 1903, at ir< Wing. To Mr. and Mrs. George E. Gates have been born three children — Zaidee A., born at Red Wing, January 1. 1878, died May 22, 1903; Bessie M., born August 4, 1879, mar- ried Dr. I-:. Van Camp, of St. Thomas. X. D. Dr. and Mrs. Van Camp now live at Athens. Mich., where they have two children — Lawrence, horn November 1. 1905. and Edith, born August 14, 1907. Lawrence, the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Gates, was horn December 18, 1881, and died October 16, 1882. Frederick F. Hoorn, of Hal Wing, engineer and machinist for Charles Betcher, was born in Kroneberg's Ian, Sweden, April 3, 1837. His father, Andreas Hoorn, born in 1808. and died in 1894, was a blacksmith by trade. His mother, Christina Nelson, was horn in 1809 and died in 1894. Both parents remained in their na- tive country all their lives. Frederick F. attended the Swedish schools and learned the blacksmith trade as an apprentice to his father, also mastering the art of a machinist. He continued in these occupations, being, for a time, engaged in a foundry and mill business with his brothers. He spent one year in Copen- hagen, Denmark, working in locomotive shops. In the spring of 1870 he emigrated to America, spent the summer in Boston work-