Frederick T. Gates
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Frederick T. Gates (1853-1929) was a leading American philanthropist, and the main philanthropic advisor to John D. Rockefeller from 1891 to 1912.
The son of a Baptist minister, he graduated from the University of Rochester in 1877, and from the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1880. In 1880 he became pastor of the Central Baptist Church in Minneapolis.
He left the ministry and became and official of the American Baptist Education Society, where he met Rockefeller. He became a full-time business and philanthropic advisor to Rockefeller, whose wealth in 1902 was $200 million.
Gates designed the funding plans for the University of Chicago (serving for many years as a trustee) and the General Education Board (now defunct), which he ran as president. Gates designed the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University), of which he was board president. Finally, 1910-1913, he designed the Rockefeller Foundation.
After leaving Rockefeller's employment in 1912 he remained on many boards.
References
- Allan Nevins, Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist (1953);
- Starr, Harris Elwood, "Frederick T. Gates" in ''Dictionary of American Biography;;, Volume 4 (1931)
- General Education Board The General Education Board: An Account of Its Activities, 1902-1914 ([1915])
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