NOTE - The Geni page ( https://www.geni.com/people/William-Gates/6000000007400962864 ) has many inaccuracies ...
Birthdate: January 22, 1858 (not 1860)
Death: April 30, 1926 (66) / Seattle, King County, Washington, United States
Main source - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86517134/william-henry-gates - See below ..
William H. Gates (1858-1926) came from Pennsylvania in 1888, and went on the Dawson Gold Rush of 1898. In 1900, he had a furniture store in Nome, Alaska. He and Rebecca (1867-1933) lived in Seattle in the early 1900's where his daughters, Pearl and Florence, partook in the rarified atmosphere of young Seattle socialites. Their son, William Gates, Jr. was born in 1891, daughter Pearl Gates in 1895, and Florence Gates who married Harry Schumacher on October 22, 1913. He became a city councilmember in Bremerton. (Provided by Vicki Stiles, Director, Shoreline Historical Museum)
Date Of Death: 30 Apr 1926
Age: 68
Father Name: Joseph C. Gates
Mother Name: Martha A. Satterley
Death Place: Seattle, King, Washington
Spouse Name: Rebecca Gates
(1897) Image of full page from directory - [HD0014][GDrive] / (1898) Image of full page from directory - [HD0016][GDrive]
NOTE: Info on the Merchants Hotel" is here : ((Image of full page from directory (year 1900) - [HD002C][GDrive]) ) Address is "123 W Washington on Corner of Railroad Ave."; Proprietor is "Fred E. Ferguson" - This is a William W Gates, not a William H Gates. (Clip here : [HD002D][GDrive] )
September 1898 - Gold is discovered in Nome, Alaska. Between 4,000 and 7,000 people leave Dawson City the following spring
https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/the-gold-rush-in-british-columbia-and-the-yukon
Full PDF of transcript - [HS002W][GDrive] / Full census sheet - [HS002T][GDrive]
(1905) Image of full page from directory - [HD001K][GDrive] / (1906) - Image of full page from directory - [HD001M][GDrive]
This is approximately near the intersection of 6th and Pine .. meaning that row houses shown in this old picture ( https://pauldorpat.com/2015/09/26/seattle-now-then-a-row-house-at-6th-and-pine/ ) just may ahve been the Gates building !
"The Pretoria" - see 1906 Seattle directory pages : [HD002F][GDrive]
https://www.newspapers.com/image/221367851/?terms=%22the%2Bpretoria%22
"Gates Furniture Company" - 2029 1st Ave, Seattle [HD001T][GDrive]
Note that at a later time, "The Eureka Furniture Company" was at that address (for year 1915, see https://www.newspapers.com/image/145537573/?terms=%222029%2B1st%22 ) .. in 1916, it was "The Gardiner Furniture Company" (see https://www.newspapers.com/image/145517656/?terms=%222029%2B1st%22 )
NOTES:
See Puget Sound Genealogical Society Newsletter , Volume 30 Number 2 June 2005 : [HP002X][GDrive]
See Bremerton, Washington (source of the following is [HW0033][GDrive] ) :
"William Bremer died young, at age 47. On the day of his burial, December 30, 1910, Bremerton's businesses closed for two hours in the afternoon and the town's flags were flown at half-mast. His widow, Sophia Hensel Bremer (1872-1959), took over management of the family properties and with the three Bremer children she would continue to play an influential role in Bremerton for many years. One of the family's signature projects was the construction in 1914 of the Bremerton Trust and Savings Bank building on the northeast corner of 2nd Street and Pacific Avenue, one of three buildings in Bremerton designed by noted Seattle architect Harlan Thomas (1870-1953)."
Technically, the address of this building is 202 Pacific Ave. See ( https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/202-Pacific-Ave-Bremerton-WA/17531175/ )
214 Second St, Bremerton, is today a parking garage - so different building, but on the same block
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS75-3S7L-G?i=305&cc=1534448
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/15518373?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.100929543.783907915.1596576946-1615111073.1596074686&pId=751560425
Son William Henry Gates (born 1891) is age 26 at this time; See [HG005T][GDrive]
See Puget Sound Genealogical Society Newsletter , Volume 27 Number 3 Sep 2002 ; [HP002W][GDrive] ... but no specific dates ...
Earliest reference to any US Furniture I can find is 1915 ..... but this is in Aberdeen, Washington (on the pacific coast)
Below : See Puget Sound Genealogical Society Newsletter , Volume 31 Number 1 March 2006 ; [HP002Y][GDrive] ... but no specific dates ...
Their son James d'Orma Braman (born 1901) becomes a future neighbor for William Henry Gates (born 1891) , and mentor of William Henry Gates II (born 1925) .
June 1918 - Braman selling land in Bremerton - 12 acres - 105 second st.
According to the US Census (clip below):
Proprietress" at "Hotel"
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Living alone - Job is an "apartment manager"
2300 Yale Ave North (multiple families) no longer exists (Google maps, 2020)
Rebecca now saying her "maiden" name was "Rebecca Philipson"
Spouse - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86517099/rebecca-gates
BIRTH 1867
DEATH 15 Mar 1933 (aged 65–66)
BURIAL Acacia Memorial Park and Funeral Home , Lake Forest Park, King County, Washington, USA
PLOT Mausoleum MN106 (Lilac Corridor), Wall 6, Niche
Info on wife - Rebecca Gates (Eppinhauser)
Birthdate: October 1869
Birthplace: Norddeutscher Bund
Death: circa 1920 (46-55)
https://www.geni.com/people/Rebecca-Gates/6000000007401032507
Full passenger list sheet from this journey - [HJ000R][GDrive] ; From Ancestry.com transcript :
There is a village of "eppinhausen" in Germany -
German Wiku only : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eppenhausen
The beginnings of Eppenhausen lie in the dark of history, the name of the district suggests that there was a farm here that belonged to an Eppo or Eppinc and was named after him. [2]
Eppenhausen was mentioned for the first time in 1229 as Eppenhusen in the goods and income register of the women's convention and later noble ladies' convent in Herdecke. [3] From 1271 to 1374 a knight Goswin von Eppenhausen is documented in old sources, he had his own seal. Around 1400, the Count von der Mark had rights in the Eppenhuser Marke. [4] After the division of the Westphalian brands in 1450, there was an "Eppenhauser Mark", which included today's districts of Halden, Herbeck, Eppenhausen, Emst and Delstern.
The farming community Eppenhausen belonged to the county of Mark in the parish and court of Hagen. In the treasure book of the county of Mark from 1486 in the Eppenhuser Burschop 12 taxable farm owners (2 from Emst) with a levy between 1 oirt (¼ Gg) and 8 gold guilders were mentioned. [5]
In 1746, the neighboring town of Hagen in Eppenhausen was granted city rights; in 1751, Frederick the Great dissolved the stamps, meaning that this also meant the end of the Eppenhauser Mark.
In the 1780s, the then district baron von Hövel auf Herbeck submitted an application to the royal court in Berlin to have the "Eppenhauser Brunnen" recognized as medicinal water due to the medicinal water that was found there. Even after the rejection, the fountain - above all by the Hohenlimburg widow Bettermann - was advertised as a fountain of health and baths were administered until the 1870s.
In 1814 Eppenhausen received its own post line and a post station, in 1898 Eppenhausen was declared an independent parish, and on August 5, 1900 the first tram line for the new electric tram ran from Hohenlimburg to Eppenhausen, the operation of which was only discontinued in 1975.
On April 1, 1901, the municipality of Eppenhausen was incorporated into the city of Hagen together with the municipalities of Delstern and Eckesey [6], the population of which rose to 68,402 inhabitants.
Name: Rebecca Gates [Rebecca Philipson]
Gender: Female
Birth Date: abt 1868
Death Date: 15 Mar 1933
Age at Death: 65
Death Location: Seattle, King, Washington
Father: Philipson
Record Source: Washington State Death Records
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86517117/pearl-ann-hager
BIRTH 1895
DEATH 1993 (aged 97–98)
BURIAL Acacia Memorial Park and Funeral Home , Lake Forest Park, King County, Washington, USA
PLOT Mausoleum MN106 (Lilac Corridor), Wall 6, Niche
Pearl Ann Gates and her sister were socialites in Seattle during the early 1900–teens, and were seen in all the right places. While Florence (her sister) married Harry Schumacher in 1914, Pearl was a somewhat freer spirit and married three times, with no big pictures or social page announcements - first Carlyle, then Hogenson in 1931 in Island County, from whom she was divorced in 1952, and much later Hager. Throughout her young life, she enjoyed many sewing circles, which were announced in the polite social pages, and she went on to become a nurse in 1925, and took sewing classes at Edison Technical College.
Eventually she owned a retreat of small cabins on Lake Washington in Lake Forest Park, where people could rest and recover from any of the ills of society. She is here interred with her parents. (Provided by Vicki Stiles, Director, Shoreline Historical Museum)