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Kansas and Kansans: Volume 4
page 1842
In 1869 Joseph B. F. Cates married Nettie Wilhoite, daughter of J. H.
Wilhoite, of Platte County, Missouri. To their marriage were born five
children: Charles Henry received his education in the Virginia Military
Institute in Lexington and is now a traveling salesman for a New York house.
Lloyd R., who died at Independence July 6, 1913, had for several years
previously been egaged in farming in Oklahoma. Philip F. is a graduate of the
Kansas City Dental College and is now practicing at Cedarvale, Kansas. The
fourth among the children is Mr. R. [p.1842] W. Cates. Ada E. graduated from
the University of Kansas in 1906, afterwards specialized by two years of work
in the Platte Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and is now a teacher in the
public schools of Independence.
Kansas and Kansans: Volume 4
R. W. Cates was born at Humboldt, Kansas, in August, 1876, a short time
before his father moved to Kansas City to practice. Most of his education was
acquired in the public schools of Fredonia and Chanute, Kansas, and he
attended the high schools of both places, being graduated from the Chanute
High School with the class of 1894. For another year he attended the Kansas
State Normal School at Emporia, and later began his preparations for the law,
graduating LL. B. in 1900 from the University of Kansas Law Department. In
the same year he went East and did post-graduate work in the New York Law
School, from which he received the degree LL. M. in 1902. He continued in New
York City for a year acquiring additional experience in the profession, and
thus well equipped took up active practice at Chanute with his father in
1903. He has been a resident of Independence since 1907, and in 1908 he took
his present post as assistant cashier of the First National Bank. While at
Chanute he served as city attorney.
Kansas and Kansans: Volume 4
Mr. Cates is a democrat, is affiliated with Fortitude Lodge No. 107, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, Keystone Chapter No. 22, Royal Arch Masons, and is
past commander of St. Bernard's Commandery No. 10, Knights Templar. He is
also a member of Lodge No. 780, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at
Independence, belongs to the Country Club, and is a director in the
Commercial Club.
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In October, 1904, at Independence Mr. Cates married Miss Edith Allen. Her
father, the late E. P. Allen, was one of the most prominent citizens of
Montgomery County, and his career is sketched on other pages of this
publication. Mr. and Mrs. Cates have two children: Catherine, born September
3, 1906, and Allen, born May 23, 1908.