by John D. Benedict

1922
The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago
P. 343

W.M. TATE

For twenty-one years W.M. Tate has been engaged in farming in Nowata county,residing all of this time on his present farm of one hundred and forty acres,four and one-half miles southeast of Nowata. He was born in western Kansas onthe 4th of December, 1873, a son of P.A. and Margaret (Barnes) Tate, the formera native of Kentucky and the latter of Indiana. They moved from Iowa to Kansasone year before W.M. was born and located in Lincoln county, where they livedtwo years. At the termination of that time they went to Osborne county and thefather took up a homestead and timber claim there, acquiring three hundred andtwenty acres in all. For eight years they resided on that farm and then soldout, removing to Nemaha county, where they rented farm land until 1894. Inthat year they came to Indian Territory and located on the Verdigris river,three and one-half miles east of Watova. Leasing land from the Indians, theycleared it and brought it to a highly cultivated state during the eight yearsof their residence thereon. After two years on a farm in Chautauqua county,Kansas, Mr. and Mrs. Tate returned to Indian Territory and for two yearsresided on a farm three and one-half miles east of Bartlesville in Washingtoncounty. Subsequently they removed to the farm on which W.M. now resides, andthe father engaged in farming here until his demise on the 1st of February,1918, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Mrs. Tate is still living,being in her seventy-fourth year, and she makes her home with her son, JesseRoy Tate, in Marshall county, Kansas.

W.M. Tate received a limited education and at an early age put his textbooksaside and engaged in farming. For twenty-one years he has resided on hispresent place of one hundred and forty acres, four and one-half miles southeastof Nowata, and during this time he has won for himself an enviable positionamong the representative farmers and stockmen of the state. He has onehundred acres under cultivation and he raises high grade beef stock and hogs.In addition to the original tract he leases three hundred acres. He has amodern two-story residence on the farm with substantial outbuildings and wellrepaired gates and fences.

Mr. Tate has been twice married. His first wife was Dora Wing and theirmarriage was celebrated in 1891. She became the mother of one child, William J.,now twenty-one years of age. In 1906 Mr. Tate was married to Sarah Estes andto the second union seven children have been born: Jennie May, Gladys Marie,Mildred Margaret, Ruby Pauline, Alfred B., Opal Clata and Charles Rea.

Mr. Tate gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and theprinciples for which it stands and for many years he has been a director of theschool board of District No. 39. He is one of the public spirited andprogressive citizens of Nowata county, and his influence has been felt in manymovements for the development and upbuilding of the community. 

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