George Harry Bate
George Harry Bate
by Rachael E. Martin, Club #25 Historian
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George Harry Bate became a charter member of Club 25 in 1911 when he was 29 years old under the classification of Mercantile Agency. He was Superintendent of the Bradstreet Co., located on the 3rd floor of the Fidelity Building.
Bate was born in Wisconsin in 1882. His father was from Massachusetts and his mother from Toronto. Bate married a Canadian woman, named Maida, whose parents were both from Canada. He had two children both born in Minnesota; a son, Saul, born in 1912, and a daughter, Katherine S., born in 1915.
In 1918 during the First World War, Bate went to France with the YMCA. He returned to Duluth and in 1920 became the Secretary and Treasurer of the Helmers-Bate Co., a wholesale paints and building specialties firm located on the 4th floor of the Torrey Building. He and his family, including his mother, Florence B. Bate, lived at 1428 ½ E. 3rd Street. In 1921, Bate worked as Credit Manager for the Kelley-Duluth Co. By 1922 or 1923, when he was in his early 40's Bate died. His widow Maida moved closer downtown, eventually living at the Munger Terrace, and working as a saleswoman at the Glass Block. |