Horace G. Cates

A native of Maine, the doctor was a graduate of Colby College in Bangor, Maine, and the University of Minnesota. He moved to Los Angeles about 1886 and began practicing surgery five years later. Cates worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad and for the Pacific Electric Railway Company. and he was elected Los Angeles County Coroner for a four-year term on the Republican ticket in November 1892. Cates was first married to Ella Van Every on May 16, 1889, in Santa Monica, California. She died in Monrovia, California, in May 1891. He and Mary E. Bicknell were married on June 15, 1895, in Los Angeles. He was survived by her and five children, Charles B., Horace B., Ella, Mildren N. and Mary Edna. ==Death==

After his death from sepsis, having scratched his hand during his work, The Los Angeles Times said his case was "one of the most serious that ever came to the attention of the surgeons in the Los Angeles hospitals." He died without a will, leaving property in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Fresno counties. Interment was in Inglewood Park Cemetery. ==Family==

His mother, Helena A. Cates, had died on May 26, 1891. He had a brother, Alton M. Cates, who died November 23, 1920. ==References==