Page:One of a thousand.djvu/122

 io8 CATE. CATE. this union are two children : Sewall Albert and Lizzie Maud Carvill. CATE, GEORGE NEAL, son of Moses and Abigail (Brewster) Cate, was born December n, 1824, at AVolfborough, Carroll county, N. H. The facilities of- fered for an early education were very slight, but at eighteen years of age, Mr. Cate had fitted himself to teach, and secured a position in Rochester, N. H., which he held for two years. At the close of the term, in the spring of 1843, he came to Boston seeking a fortune, and secured employment at Ashland (then Unionville) to learn the trade of house builder. For GEORGE N. CATE. five years after completing his service, he remained in Ashland, carrying on the lumber business and house carpentering. At this period his health was so seriously affected that for three years he was obliged to abandon all labor, but in 1856 had so far recovered as to begin, in Marlborough, upon a limited scale, the lumber and con- tracting business, in which he is still en- gaged. August 25, 1S57, Mr. Cate married Charlotte A., daughter of Mark and Sophia (Brigham) Fay, of Marlborough, who died in i860, and their only child, a son, died the following year. In August, 1S69, Mr. Cate married Adelle E. Ghdden of Lowell. Mr. Cate was a delegate to the first Free Soil convention in Worcester, in 1848. has been a director in the People's National Bank of Marlborough, and is now a direct- or in the First National Bank, and trustee of the Marlborough Savings Bank. He has been a member of the United Brethren Lodge of A. F. & A. M. for thirty years, and a charter member of the Houghton R. A. Chapter, of Marlborough, and other societies. CATE, GEORGE W., son of Jonathan Cate, was born in Northwood, Rockingham county, N. H., March 10, 1834. He obtained his preliminary education in the public schools of his native town, fitted for college at the Blanchard Academy, Pembroke, N. H., entered Dartmouth Col- lege, 1857, and was graduated in 1861. Farm work and a shoe-maker's trade gave him the practical side of life in early years — his work on the bench supplying him with the funds requisite for his academic expenses. Before and after entering col- lege he employed what time he could spare from the prosecution of his studies, in teaching. After his graduation he entered the law office of S. G. Clarke of Northwood, taught school the following winter in Portsmouth, N. H., and afterward served as assistant assessor of the United States Internal Rev- enue. In January, 1S63, he entered the law office of Hon. VV. W. Sticknev, Exeter, N. 11. While a student in Judge Stickney's of- fice he was appointed school commissioner for Rockingham county, and re-appointed the following year. He was chosen secre- tary of the New Hampshire state board of education in 1S65. While still a law student, he taught the high school in New Market, N. H., two terms. He was admitted to practice law in the supreme court of New Hampshire, October, 1865. In 1866 he removed to Amesbury, Mass., where he opened an of- fice and engaged in the practice of his pro- fession, retaining his residence there up to date. On January 1, 1S73, Mr. Cate was mar- ried in Amesbury, to Caroline C, daughter of David Batcheldcr. For several years he was a member of the school board of Amesbury. He has served two years, 1S78 and '79, in the state Senate, being elected from the 4th Essex district. He was a delegate to the national Republican convention in Chicago, 1884. In 1868 he was appointed one of the trial justices of Essex county, which office he