Person

James Gates (Hamilton County, Ohio, bookseller, printer, and merchant)

b. 1821 d. 1887

Hamilton County, Ohio, bookseller, printer, and merchant. Native of England. Married to Sarah M. Fowler Gates. Father of Edwin Gates, Sidney Gates, Oliver Gates, Charles Gates, George Gates, Sarah "Kittie" Gates, and William H. Gates. Bookseller in New York, New York, in 1850. Bookseller in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1860. Printer in Hamilton County in 1862. Merchant in Hamilton County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, New York County, Ward 5, p. 250A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ward 15, p. 404.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ward 21, p. 702A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Hamilton County, OH, June 1863, p. 13.

"James Gates (1821-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial #78936578, accessed December 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78936578.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #24235.

Steven R. Boyd, Patriotic Envelopes of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010), 4, 89.

KYR-0001-031-0067

Citation

Gates, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210025 (November 12, 2026).

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