Gates, Frederick Taylor, 1853-1929

Gates (Rochester Theological Seminary, 1880) was Baptist clergyman, business executive, and administrator of Rockefeller philanthropies. He served as president and trustee of the General Education Board and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Frederick Taylor Gates (1853-1929) was a Baptist minister, businessman, and chief architect of John D. Rockefeller's great philanthropic enterprises. He worked his way through the University of Rochester -- receiving his degree in 1877-- and the Rochester Theological Seminary (1880). Superintendent of missions for the American Home Missionary Society in Kansas, in 1888 he became secretary of the newly organized American Baptist Education Society; from that time on he was associated with the founding and development of the University of Chicago. Contact with John D. Rockefeller, founder of the University, led to Gates' employment by Rockefeller in 1892, first as principal philanthropic adviser, later as President of the General Education Board (first of the unrestricted Rockefeller foundations). He was also the founder of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. F.T. Gates was for many years also a trustee of the University of Chicago.

Frederick T. Gates was a Baptist minister, original trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1923); trustee (1902-1917), chairman (1907-1917) of the General Education Board; chairman of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission (1909-1914); trustee of the University of Chicago (1896-1910); trustee of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1929); and member of the International Health Commission (1913-1916) and Board (1916-1923), the China Medical Board and Peking Union Medical College (1914-1917). Frederick T. Gates' association with John D. Rockefeller began in 1891.

Baptist minister, businessman. Corresponding secretary, American Baptist Education Society, 1888-1902. Philanthropic adviser to John D. Rockefeller; president, General Education Board. Trustee, University of Chicago, 1896-1910.