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Bingham Genealogy - Gates Family History |
 | | He was baptized by Orson Pratt June 18, 1833, and confirmed a member of the Church the same day by Zerubbabel Snow. |
 | | At Flat Branch, Sangamon county, Ill., on Feb. 18, 1836, he was ordained an Elder in the Church under the hands of Elder Baldwin, and on the 25th of the same month he left Edgar county, Ill., to return home to Clay county, in company with 32 souls, who chose Elder Gates as their captain. |
 | | At the October conference, 1844, he was ordained and set apart as senior president of the fourth quorum of Seventies, under the hands of Parley P. and Orson Pratt. |
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