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Gates, Merrill Edwards was born on April 6, 1848 in Warsaw, New York, United States. Son of Seth M. (late congressman and anti-slavery leader) and Fanny Jeanette (Parsons) Gates.
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Gates, Merrill Edwards was born on April 6, 1848 in Warsaw, New York, United States. Son of Seth M. (late congressman and anti-slavery leader) and Fanny Jeanette (Parsons) Gates.
Brother of Lewis Edwards G. Bachelor of Arts, University of Rochester, 1870, Master of Arts, 1873. Doctor of Philosophy, University State of New York, 1880.
(Doctor of Laws, Princeton and Rochester. 1882, Columbia, 1891, Williams, 1893.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia, 1887).
He served as Principal for twelve years at The Albany Academy in New York, and visited the Rugby School and the University of Oxford from 1872 to 1875. Upon his return to the United States, he was offered the post of Chancellor of the University of Tennessee but declined and remained in Albany. He went abroad again in 1879, spending a year in travel and study in France, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece.
Upon this second return, the University of the State of New York conferred on him a degree in honoris causa in 1880, and in 1882, both the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University and the University of Rochester awarded him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
He received the Doctor of Laws degree from Columbia University in 1891 and from Williams College in 1893. Columbia University also conferred upon him the degree of Doctorate of Humane Laws (Doctor of Humane Letters) in 1887.
During his tenure as President of Rutgers College, which began in 1882, built the College"s first dormitory, Winants Hall (completed in 1890) named for Garrett East. Winants, and New Jersey Hall (funded by the state), which was used for instruction in Chemistry and Biology (now home of the Economics department). Under the provisions of the Hatch Acting, in 1887, Rutgers established the Agricultural Experiment Station, and under the Morrill Acting of 1890, increase funding for the Scientific School.
However, in 1890, Doctor resigned as President, to accept the Presidency of Amherst College (from 1890-1899) in Massachusetts.
After his tenure at Amherst, was appointed to be Chairman of the United States. Board of Indian Commissioners, and later named Secretary of the Board, serving from 1899 to 1912. He died at his summer home in Littleton, New Hampshire, on August 11, 1922.
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Member, since 1884, chairman, 1890-1899, secretary, 1899-1912, United States Board of Indian Commissioners Licensed preacher Congressional Church, since 1899. Member International Committee Young Men's Christian Association, 1882-1902.
Married Mary C., daughter Married second, Elizabeth Palmer, daughter