Feb­ru­a­ry 14, 1842, Ro­ches­ter, New York.

De­cem­ber 17, 1905.

Gates was a des­cend­ent of Ro­ger Will­iams, found­er of Rhode Is­land; daugh­ter of Will­iam S. Bi­shop of Ro­ches­ter, New York; and fa­cul­ty mem­ber of Le­roy Fe­male Sem­in­a­ry. In 1873, she mar­ried Mer­rill E. Gates, Sec­re­ta­ry to the U. S. In­di­an Com­mis­sion­ers and lat­er pre­si­dent of Rut­gers and Am­herst Col­leges. Ma­ry be­longed to the Wo­man’s Board for For­eign Mis­sions of the Re­formed Church in Amer­i­ca (Dutch Re­formed), and con­trib­ut­ed to num­er­ous per­i­od­i­cals, in­clud­ing The In­de­pen­dent, The At­lan­tic Month­ly, The Chris­tian In­tel­li­gen­cer, and The Youth’s Com­pan­ion. Her other works in­clude:

• Hymns of Na­ture and Songs of the Spir­it

• Haeussler, p. 666
• Julian, p. 1639

1. From the Hills and from the Val­l­eys
2. Jesus, Now in Glo­ry Dwell­ing
3. Rise on the Sha­dowed Na­tions
4. Send Thou, O Lord, to Ev­ery Place
5. Thy Love to Me, O Christ