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Frederick Taylor Gates (July 22, 1853, Maine, Broome County, New York – February 6, 1929, Phoenix, Arizona) was an American Baptist clergyman, educator, and the principal business and philanthropic advisor to the major oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Sr., from 1891 to 1923. [1]
Jun 28, 2024 · Feb. 6, 1929, Phoenix, Ariz. (aged 75) Frederick T. Gates (born July 2, 1853, Maine, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 6, 1929, Phoenix, Ariz.) was an American philanthropist and businessman, a major figure in the Rockefeller interests, who spearheaded the endowment drive that created the University of Chicago. During his college days at the University of ...
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Frederick T. Gates. Frederick T. Gates, 1921. PD. By the early 1890s, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. had devised one of the world's most brilliant and sophisticated systems to make money. But when it ...
Jul 21, 2021 · Bill Gates hasn’t mentioned Frederick Taylor Gates in any entry of his personal blog either. The Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation collaborated in 2006 to create the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an initiative to lessen poverty in the continent through agricultural investment, according to The Rockefeller Foundation’s website .
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Description. Frederick T. Gates played an essential role in creating modern institutional philanthropy. Frederick Gates (1853-1929) was born in Broome County, New York. The son of a schoolteacher who read medicine and later became an ordained Baptist Minister, Gates spent the first fourteen years of his life in small villages and towns in New York.
Rockefeller couldn't agree more with his fellow millionaire. Senior looked for an advisor to help him through his dilemma. He found one in Frederick Gates, a young Baptist minister with a sharp mind and a colorful personality. Gates was quick to understand Senior's predicament: "Your fortune is rolling up, rolling up like an avalanche!" he told ...
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Frederick T. Gates, 1922 Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center Frederick Taylor Gates (1853-1929) was an American Baptist clergyman, educator, and the principal business and philanthropic advisor..