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From: North Carolina: the Old North State and the New / by Archibald
Henderson. The Lewis Publ. co., 1941
p. 101
Henry Roy Cates is vice president and sales manager of the Cates Pickle
Company, having its main plant in Faison. ... The Cates Pickle Company
started in a small way under the firm name of Charles F. Cates & Sons,
Inc. The business had its beginning on a Quaker farm near Graham in
Alamance County, NC in 1898, when Charles F. Cates, who was a traveling
salesman for a grocery house, conceived the idea of selling pickles, and
on one of his trips home suggested that they plant an acre in cucumbers.
...
Charles F. Cates, founder and promoter of the business, was married
in 1905 and removed to Mebane, NC. His son, A.P. Cates, is now general
manager, with Henry Roy Cates....
Henry Manley Cates, father of Henry Roy Cates of this review, was
born at Canecreek, Orange Co. NC Nov. 17, 1848. and was a youth of but
16 when he joined the Confederate forces for service during the last
year of the war. His wife was in her maidenhood Mary Elizabeth Bradshaw,
of Alamance Co. and they had 6 children: Charles F. ; Alonze E., who
became a physician and is now deceased ; Junius Sidney ; Ione, the only
daughter of the family, who passed away ; Henry Roy ; and Herbert Leo,
of California. Of the above names Junius Sidney Cates has won wide
renown in the field of agricultural journalism. He has been staff writer
of the " Country Gentlemen" since June 1919, and is a frequent
contributor to such leading magazines as the Saturday Evening Post" and
the "Ladies Home Journal."
Henry Roy Cates was married to Miss Cleo Mable, of Decatur, Ga. in
1925."
There is more description of the family and the business.