Charles Gilbert Gates
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Charles Gilbert Gates (May 26, 1876{{snd}}October 29, 1913) of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the owner of the first home in the United States where air conditioning was installed in 1914.{{cite web |url=http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mvigeant/therm_1/AC_final/bg.htm |title=History of Air Conditioning |access-date=2009-08-13 |publisher=Bucknell University |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001050348/http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mvigeant/therm_1/AC_final/bg.htm |archive-date=2009-10-01 }} He was the son of John Warne Gates, also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates.
Biography
Charles Gilbert Gates was the son of John Warne Gates, a manufacturer of barbed wire. In July 1913 he drove from his home in Minneapolis to New York City, where he had a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. He died in his sleep in Cody, Wyoming, in 1913.{{cite news |title=Stricken with Apoplexy at Cody After a Hunting Trip in Wyoming. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/10/29/100655370.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 29, 1913 |access-date=2023-05-11}} After his death his home was completed and was the first to have air conditioning installed.
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Category:Businesspeople from Minneapolis
Category:19th-century American businesspeople
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