Obits: Gates, Dan (1877 - 1898)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Gates, Hommel, Brewster, Jackson, Burnett, Lee, Calway, Neverman, Glass, Wildish, Ketel, Redmond, Beardsley, Frantz, Campbell, Darling, Ascott, Youmans, Ross, Anderson, Adkins, Beaulieu, Ascott, Campman, Cole, Edgebert, Eggerman, Gustavson, Gergon, Gergan, Holub, Heath, Hardison, Howe, Jones, Knoop, King, Lloyd, Lapp, Lewis, Meade, MacBride, McNamara, Maxwell, Maeder, Neely, Noyes, Nebel, Northrup, Oleson, Page, Pulsifer, Ploof, Peterson, Rude, Rhiner, Rundle, Ruddock, Stanley, Southard, Scoville, Sherman, Stockwell, Shields, Schnell, Schwab, Tenant, Whitcomb, Wightman, Welsh, Waterman

----Source: Clark County Republican Press (Neillsville, Wis.) 07/21/1898

Gates, Dan (1877 - 13 Jul 1898)

Word was received her Thursday afternoon last that Dan Gates had died at Chickamauga Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock, the direct cause being typhoid fever. When Dan left here (Neillsville, Clark County) in April with Co. A., none expected he would meet his death so soon, as he was a robust young man and gave promise of being a model of manhood.

He was a young man of sterling qualities and there is not a person who knew him but held him in the highest respect. Perfectly straight forward in character, a hard working boy, he could always be relied upon.

He was buried with honors in the National Cemetery at Chickamauga, aged 21 years. His death is a sad blow to his mother, who is with her relatives at Alma Center, and to his father who is in Alaska gold fields.

*Charley H. Gates (b. 1855 NY - ) and Louesa A. (aka: "Henrietta", "Louisa", "Lois", "Pet") Wheaton (b. 1857, Canada - ) were the parents of Daniel Gates (1877 - 1898).  They married 26 Nov 1875 in Jackson Co., Wisconsin

Children of Charles H. Gates and Louesa A. Wheaton

Daniel W. Gates b: 1877
Thornton Gates b: Sep 1878 in Wisconsin
Ethlan "Elva" Gates b: Jan 1880 in Wisconsin
Vivian L. Gates b: Jun 1884 in Wisconsin

----Source: Eau Claire Weekly Telegram, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Thursday, November 03, 1898, Page 5

On the Spanish American War Roster for Neillsville, Wisconsin dated 28 Apr 1898, Sgt. Daniel W. Gates is listed as being  22yrs. of age, 5" 9" in height, light complexion, brown eyes, red hair and his occupation was "painter", a resident of Neillsville, Wis. with no vaccinations.  Daniel W. Gates' remains were buried in the Neillsville, Wis., City Cemetery.  His parents are also buried there.

LIST OF THE DEAD.

COMPANY A, NEILLSVILLE, WISCONSIN

Sergeant Daniel Gates, died July 13 typhoid fever, Chickamauga park.

Ellis Noyes, died Aug. 23, typhoid fever, Ponce, Porto Rico.

Corporal Frank E. Stanley, died Sept. 6, typhoid fever, Ponce, Porto Rico.

COMPANY B, LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN

Private G. M. Casburg, died Aug. 6, pneumonia, on board Lampasas, near Fort Monroe.

Private Joseph Tucheck, died Oct. 18, typhoid fever, Ponce, Porto Rico.

COMPANY C, HUDSON, WISCONSIN

Halvor Olson, died of fever.

COMPANY D, MAUSTON, WISCONSIN

Corporal Fred Goodhouse, died Oct. 23; typhoid fever, on board the Relief.

COMPANY E, EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN

Corporal Sumner P. Bartlett, died Sept. 8, typhoid fever, Coamo, Porto Rico.

Private Chas. Eck, died May 22, typhoid fever, at Chickamanga park.

Private Dwight C. Brace, died Sept. 17, typhoid fever, Ponce, Porto Rico.

COMPANY F, PORTAGE, WICONSIN

Corporal Frank R. Loomis, died Sept. 8, typhoid fever, Coamo, Porto Rico.

Private James Gamble, died Sept. 30, typhoid fever, Coamo, Porto Rico.

COMPANY G, WAUSAU

Private Frank Gauger, died Oct. 21, typhoid fever, Ponce, Porto Rico.

COMPANY H, MENOMONIE, WICONSIN

Sergeant George H. Edwards, died Sept. 1, typhoid fever, Coamo, Porto Rico.

Private Frank Roberts, died July 30, typhoid fever, Charleston, S.C.

Private James Turner, died Sept. 8, malarial fever, Coamo, Porto Rico.

Private Edward Wachter, died Sept. 18, typhoid fever, Coamo, Porto Rico.

Private Charles Sunderlin, died Oct 2, tumor of the brain, Coamo, Porto Rico.

Private Charles Wagner, died Oct. 6, typhoid fever, Coamo, Porto Rico.

COMPANY I, WEST SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN

Lieut. Hector R. Swift, died July 23, typhoid fever. Charleston, S.C.

COMPANY K, TOMAH, WICONSIN

Private Paul Curtis, Aug. 9, typhoid fever, Charleston, S. C.

Private Oscar Zimmerman, Oct. 15, typhoid fever, Coamo, Porto Rico.

COMPANY L., SPARTA, WISCONSIN

Corp. Oscar R. Swanson, killed in action, Aug. 12 Albonite Pass., Porto Rico.

Private Fred J. Vought, killed in action, Aug. 12, Albonite Pass, Porto Rico.

Private Leslie McArthur died Sept. 11, typhoid fever, Coamo, Porto Rico.

COMPANY M, LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN

Corp. Burt B. Bailey, died Aug 12, malarial fever, Ponce, Porto Rico.

Private Alfred Thorson died Oct. 1, on board the Relief, typhoid fever.

Private Earl Chapman died Oct. 15, at Sparta, consumption.

The proclamation of the President of the United States, asking for volunteers, was published on April 23, 1898. Within two weeks Company A was at its rendezvous at Camp Harvey, near Milwaukee, Wis., and on May 11, 1898, was mustered into the service of the United States by Captain W. L. Buck, of the Thirteenth United States Regular Infantry.


The following list of officers and men is taken from the muster-in roll of the adjutant-general of the United States at the War Department, Washington, D. C.: Captain, John W. Hommel; first lieutenant, William J. Brewster; second lieutenant, Ole A. Jackson; first sergeant, Frank Burnett; quartermaster sergeant, Charles E. Lee; sergeants, Daniel W. Gates, Walter R. Calway, Julius Neverman; corporals, Elmer Glass, Allen Wildish, Emil Ketel, Lee I. Redmond, Albert J. Beardsley and Henry Frantz; musicians, William Campbell and Harry F. Darling; hospital steward, George W. Ascott; artificer, Charles A. Youmans; wagoner, Henry Ross; privates, John Anderson, W. H. Adkins, Guy Allen, Charles M. Burnett, Lester Beaulieu, Edward Barton, William A. Bone, William A. Campman, Willard A. Cole, Leo Edgebert, Einest Eggeman, Henry Gustavson, Ellwood Gergçn, Bert E. Hart, Carl B. Hanson, Martin Hauge, Dan H. Higgins, Bermey Hicks, E. R. Harrington, J. J. Holub, John A. Heath, Warren Hardison, Arthur Howe, Charles H. Jones, Arnold Knoop, Edward King, Clyde Lloyd, Ray Lapp, Benjamin F. Lewis, Roland Meade, Rob J. MacBride, Jr., Ed McNamara, William Maxwell, Adolf M. Maeder, Amos H. Neely, Ellis Noyes, William Nebel, Thomas Northrup, Peter H. Oleson, Ernest J. Page, Bernard J. Pulsifer, P. F. Ploof, Charles Peterson, George Rude, Caspar Rhiner, Henry F. Rundle, Frank Ruddock, Oscar Rude, Frank E. Stanley, William Southard, William A. Scovill, Alfred Sherman, Thomas C. Stockwell, Frank Shields, Lewis F. Schnell, Otto H. Schwab, Frank Tenant, Hugh W. Whitcomb, George A. Wightman, Mark Welsh, William J, Waterman.

Military Record of Clark County, Wisconsin

Compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge,

Chicago and Winona, H. C. Cooper Jr., & Co. in 1918, Pg. 721-726.

The proclamation of the President of the United States, asking for volunteers, was published on April 23, 1898. Within two weeks Company A was at its rendezvous at Camp Harvey, near Milwaukee, Wis., and on May 11, 1898, was mustered into the service of the United States by Captain W. L. Buck, of the Thirteenth United States Regular Infantry.

The following list of officers and men is taken from the muster-in roll of the adjutant-general of the United States at the War Department, Washington, D. C.: Captain, John W. Hommel; first lieutenant, William J. Brewster; second lieutenant, Ole A. Jackson; first sergeant, Frank Burnett; quartermaster sergeant, Charles E. Lee; sergeants, Daniel W. Gates, Walter R. Calway, Julius Neverman; corporals, Elmer Glass, Allen Wildish, Emil Ketel, Lee I. Redmond, Albert J. Beardsley and Henry Frantz; musicians, William Campbell and Harry F. Darling; hospital steward, George W. Ascott; artificer, Charles A. Youmans; wagoner, Henry Ross; privates, John Anderson, W. H. Adkins, Guy Allen, Charles M. Burnett, Lester Beaulieu, Edward Barton, William A. Bone, William A. Campman, Willard A. Cole, Leo Edgebert, Einest Eggeman, Henry Gustavson, Ellwood Gergçn, Bert E. Hart, Carl B. Hanson, Martin Hauge, Dan H. Higgins, Bermey Hicks, E. R. Harrington, J. J. Holub, John A. Heath, Warren Hardison, Arthur Howe, Charles H. Jones, Arnold Knoop, Edward King, Clyde Lloyd, Ray Lapp, Benjamin F. Lewis, Roland Meade, Rob J. MacBride, Jr., Ed McNamara, William Maxwell, Adolf M. Maeder, Amos H. Neely, Ellis Noyes, William Nebel, Thomas Northrup, Peter H. Oleson, Ernest J. Page, Bernard J. Pulsifer, P. F. Ploof, Charles Peterson, George Rude, Caspar Rhiner, Henry F. Rundle, Frank Ruddock, Oscar Rude, Frank E. Stanley, William Southard, William A. Scovill, Alfred Sherman, Thomas C. Stockwell, Frank Shields, Lewis F. Schnell, Otto H. Schwab, Frank Tenant, Hugh W. Whitcomb, George A. Wightman, Mark Welsh, William J, Waterman.

The Third Regiment remained at Chickamauga for several weeks, afterwards was encamped at Charleston, S. C., where, in common with other regiments that were completed there, it underwent the severe practice march, directed by General Ernst, and which, at the time, was severely criticized. After a few weeks at Charleston the Third Regiment sailed for Porto Rico, and was among the first of the regiments to effect a landing at Ponce, on the Spanish island. The Third Regiment was brigaded with the Second Wisconsin and the Sixteenth Pennsylvania, and a month after landing at Ponce the brigade started on a march through the island from Ponce, the objective point being San Juan on the northern coast of the island. The brigade marched from Ponce and arrived at, or near, Albinto Pass, where the Spanish troops were encamped and partially fortified, and where an engagement took place in which two members of the Sparta company of the Third Regiment were killed by a shell from the Spanish artillery. The regiment then proceeded on its march as far as Cayey, where the protocol was signed and peace finally declared. Company A returned to its home station at Neillsville late in the year 1898, having seen a little less than a year’s service.

The casualties of the company were as follows: Sergeant Daniel Gates died of typhoid fever at Chickamauga Ellis Noyes and Frank E. Stanley died in Porto Rico from disease contracted in their line of duty, and Bernard J. Pulsifier died at Neillsville, Wis., shortly after the return of the company from disease contracted in the service. Both Lieutenant Brewster and Lieut. Ole Jackson died some years after the return of the company, but attributable to disease contracted in the service.

Biography

1880 Federal Census, Neillsville, Clark, Wisconsin, United States, pg. 429

Davie (Danie) Gates, single, white, American

Household Members
self Charley H. Gates M 25 (1855) New York, United States, Clerk in store, both parents b. NY
wife Louesa A. Gates F 23 Canada, both parents b. Canada
son Danie Gates M 3 Wisconsin, United States
son Thornton Gates M 2 Wisconsin, United States
daughter Ethlan Gates F 0 Wisconsin, United States
brother-in-law Eli Wheaton M 20 Wisconsin, United States