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Lewis Edwards Gates

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Lewis Edwards Gates

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30 Sep 1924 (aged 64)
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Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Educator and critic, was born in Warsaw. He graduated from Harvard in 1884 where he immediately began his work in forensics. Mr. Gates life was spent entirely in Harvard as instructor and associate professor in English Elected to the later post in 1896, he became a frequent contributor of critical articles to magazines, becoming well known through his critical essays on English authors, including such men as Matthew Arnold, Francis Jeffrey and John Henry Newman. Among the volumes he wrote, and their date of publication were: "Selections from Jeffrey", 1894;
"Selections from Newman," 1895; "Selections from Matthew Arnold" 1898; "Three Studies in Literature," 1899; and "Studies and Appreciation," 1900. Mr. Gates died at Albany on Sept. 30, 1924. He was a direct descendant of Jonathan Edwards.
Educator and critic, was born in Warsaw. He graduated from Harvard in 1884 where he immediately began his work in forensics. Mr. Gates life was spent entirely in Harvard as instructor and associate professor in English Elected to the later post in 1896, he became a frequent contributor of critical articles to magazines, becoming well known through his critical essays on English authors, including such men as Matthew Arnold, Francis Jeffrey and John Henry Newman. Among the volumes he wrote, and their date of publication were: "Selections from Jeffrey", 1894;
"Selections from Newman," 1895; "Selections from Matthew Arnold" 1898; "Three Studies in Literature," 1899; and "Studies and Appreciation," 1900. Mr. Gates died at Albany on Sept. 30, 1924. He was a direct descendant of Jonathan Edwards.

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