Mabel Barnett Gates (1875 - June 1944) was active in club and civic affairs in the Los Angeles County.
Mabel Barnett was born in 1875 in Keokuk, Iowa, the daughter of Frank Barnett (1832-1920) and Naomi Barrett (1837-1926).[1]
Mabel Barnett Gates was very active in club and civic affairs.[1]
She was the first vice-president Ebell of Los Angeles and president of the Los Angeles Browning Society.[1][2][3][4] In 1915 Gates represented Ebell Club at the 14th annual California Federation of Women's Club in San Francisco.[5] In 1920 she contributed a poem, To Robert Browning, to the anthology Homage to Robert Browning.[6]
She was first vice-president of La Canada Thursday Club.[1][7]
She was on the committees for Hospitality, Finance and Browning Class of the Hollywood Club.[8]
Mabel Barnett Gates move to California in 1910 and lived at 5027 Louise Drive, La Canada, California. She married Emerson Clyde Gates (1866-1938) and had two daughter, Maude Hill Gates and Dorothy Gates (married Charles Frederick Foster).[1][9][10]
She died in June 1944, and is buried at Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, Missouri.[11]