Frederick Taylor Gates (July 22, 1853, Maine, Broome County, New York – February 6, 1929, Phoenix, Arizona)
..Gates then became Rockefeller's key philanthropic and business adviser, working in the newly established family office in Standard Oil headquarters at 26 Broadway, where he oversaw Rockefeller's investments in a series of investments in many companies but not in his personal stock in the Standard Oil Trust.
From 1892 onwards, faced with his ever expanding investments and real estate holdings, Rockefeller Sr. recognized the need for professional advice and so he formed a four-member committee, later including his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to manage his money, and nominated Gates as its head and as his senior business adviser. In this capacity Gates steered Rockefeller Sr. money predominantly to syndicates arranged by the investment house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and, to a lesser extent, the house of J. P. Morgan..
..He also served as president of the General Education Board, which was subsequently merged into other Rockefeller family institutions... In 1901, Gates designed the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University), of which he was board president. He then designed the Rockefeller Foundation, becoming a trustee upon its creation in 1913. Gates served as president of the General Education Board, which became the leading foundation in the field of education
Gates designed the China Medical Board (CMB) in 1914.
Gates was a progressive and committed to the Efficiency Movement. He looked for leverage whereby a few millions of dollars would generate significant changes, as in the creation of a new university, the eradication of hookworm because it reduced efficiency or the revolution in hospitals caused by the Flexner Report. [archived: http://archive.is/wip/NWYjl]
Many aspects of the present-day American medical profession stem from the Flexner Report and its aftermath. Homeopathy, traditional osteopathy, eclectic medicine, and physiomedicalism (botanical therapies that had not been tested scientifically) were derided;[2] some doctors were jailed. The Report also concluded that there were too many medical schools in the United States, and that too many doctors were being trained. A repercussion of the Flexner Report, resulting from the closure or consolidation of university training, was reversion of American universities to male-only admittance programs to accommodate a smaller admission pool.
Descendants: Through his eldest son Frederick, he was the grandfather of Frederick Taylor Gates, a Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale alumni, who married Patricia Brown, the daughter of William Stuart Forbes, Jr
Mary Ann Maxwell was born in Seattle, Washington, to James Willard Maxwell (Nebraska, 1901–1960), a banker, and his wife, whom he married in c. 1927, Adele Thompson (c. 1903–1987, probably born in Enumclaw, Washington)
It seems to me that the plan to move to a cashless society has long been in the works
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MercurysBall2 ago
Seattle’s first banker: Dexter Horton https://about.bankofamerica.com/en-us/our-story/seattles-first-banker.html#fbid=-wiLfwoJEf3
Seafirst Bank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafirst_Bank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Building
Seattle riot of 1886 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_riot_of_1886
Knights of Labor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Labor
MercurysBall2 ago
Internment of Japanese Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
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