Jacob Gates

Jacob Gates

Jacob Gates (May 9, 1811April 14, 1892) was an early Mormon leader and member of the Presidency of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Miles was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont and married Millie Snow in 1833. That same year, Orson Pratt baptized him. In 1834, the couple moved near Liberty, Missouri. In late 1836, they moved to Caldwell County, Missouri. In October 1844, he was made president of the fourth quorum of Seventy.cite web |url=http://www.gapages.com/gatesj1.htm |title=Jacob Gates |accessdate=2008-04-06 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=Grampa Bill]

In 1849, Gates met with Oliver Cowdery shortly before Cowdery died. During their conversation, Cowdery said,

"Jacob, I want you to remember what I say to you. I am a dying man, and what would it profit me to tell you a lie? I know,' said he, 'that this Book of Mormon was translated by the gift and power of God. My eyes saw, my ears heard, and my understanding was touched, and I know that whereof I testified is true. It was no dream, no vain imagination of the mind-it was real".

While in Liverpool, England, on a mission in 1859, Brigham Young wrote Gates to inform him he'd been called to the Presidency of the Seventy. He was ordained in 1862.

Gates served in the Utah Territorial Legislature, representing Washington and Kane counties, from 1864 to 1867. He died in Provo, Utah Territory, in 1892.

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