Union Cemetery

Gates, Calvin


DIED: 2/17/1938
AGED: 72
CAUSE OF DEATH: Coronary Occlusion

ADDRESS: Shilling Estate, Portola
OCCUPATION: Caretaker

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CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
  • 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
  • 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
  • 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake
  • 1912 The Titanic sank
  • 1920 Prohibition begins
  • 1920 Women get to vote
  • 1920 The Roaring 20's
  • 1927 'Grand Ole Opry' show on Radio
  • 1928 Steamboat Willie (Disney)
  • 1930 Radios in Cars
  • 1930 Serial Shows on Radio
  • 1937 'Soaps' on Radio
  • 1937 Golden Gate Bridge opened
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CALVIN GATES

Times

February 18, 1938

Schilling Caretaker Found Dead in Room

Calvin Gates, 65, caretaker at the Schilling estate in Portola, was found dead in his rooms there late yesterday. Death was apparently due to a heart attack.

Funeral services are to be held tomorrow morning from the Layng and Tinney funeral home here at 9:30 o'clock. Interment is to be at Union Cemetery. Gates was a native of Canada.

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