Mr. Tate received a bachelor of science degree at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri & took two years of post graduate study before becoming a teacher at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1876. On August 15, 1878 he married Mary Caroline McClelland. By the time she was 7 she had lost both parents in the Civil War & was the ward of Thomas Nesbit, a commissioner of the Missouri School. She had come to Fulton to teach at the Fulton Female Seminary. The couple lived in an apartment MSD & lost their home in the fire of of 27 February 1888.
At the death of William Dabney Kerr in 1889 Tate became superintendent. In 1896 he & his wife left Fulton for the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault. He had given 20 years of service. Under his charge the school became the sixth largest in attendance in the nation. Though it had been almost totally destroyed by fire, its work was not interrupted & improvements of many kinds were instituted.
Tate believed that education in the manual trades held great benefit for the deaf. He developed a very strong program at the Minnesota school. His family & upbringing was strongly Southern, as was the flavor of the Missouri School. Some had apprehensions that he was to have such great responsibility & power in "The Star of the North", Minnesota. But Tate had a natural way of combining the best of both cultures, was dearly loved by his students and faculty, leaving a legacy of great benefit.
Mr. Tate received a bachelor of science degree at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri & took two years of post graduate study before becoming a teacher at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1876. On August 15, 1878 he married Mary Caroline McClelland. By the time she was 7 she had lost both parents in the Civil War & was the ward of Thomas Nesbit, a commissioner of the Missouri School. She had come to Fulton to teach at the Fulton Female Seminary. The couple lived in an apartment MSD & lost their home in the fire of of 27 February 1888.
At the death of William Dabney Kerr in 1889 Tate became superintendent. In 1896 he & his wife left Fulton for the Minnesota School for the Deaf in Faribault. He had given 20 years of service. Under his charge the school became the sixth largest in attendance in the nation. Though it had been almost totally destroyed by fire, its work was not interrupted & improvements of many kinds were instituted.
Tate believed that education in the manual trades held great benefit for the deaf. He developed a very strong program at the Minnesota school. His family & upbringing was strongly Southern, as was the flavor of the Missouri School. Some had apprehensions that he was to have such great responsibility & power in "The Star of the North", Minnesota. But Tate had a natural way of combining the best of both cultures, was dearly loved by his students and faculty, leaving a legacy of great benefit.
Family Members
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Elizabeth McClanahan Tate Washington
1831–1914
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Daniel Henderson Tate
1834–1835
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Martha Henderson Tate Yates
1837–1907
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Rachel Huston Tate
1839–1840
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Sarah Scott "Sallie" Tate
1841–1934
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Dr John Milton Tate
1842–1919
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Clarinda Pinckney Tate McCue
1844–1925
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Mary Moore Tate Pratt
1847–1910
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Emily Reed Tate Yates
1849–1882
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