Sacramento County
Biographies
DANIEL ROGERS CATE
Possessed of remarkable concentrative
ability and unswerving ambition, Mr. Cate has met
with unqualified success in his chosen profession and as a member of the
prominent engineering company of Phinney, Cate & Marshall, Forum Building, Sacramento,
contributes largely toward the favorable outcome of the projects undertaken by
that firm.
Mr. Cate was
born November 17, 1880, in Quincy, Cal., where he received a public school
education, early evidencing a decided inclination for the vocation which he
entered later. His father, Daniel Rogers Cate, Sr., a
native of New Hampshire, emigrated to California in
1850 and for a time mined with fair success in Plumas and Sierra counties,
later acquiring in Plumas county, several hundred acres upon which he engaged
in general farming and raised vegetables, disposing of his garden products at a
good profit in the mining camps. He married Miss Hannah Loring,
a native of Maine, and to their union were born five
children, all of whom reside in California. Since the death of her husband in
November, 1900, Mrs. Cate has continued to make her
home in Quincy.
Mr. Cate studied
civil engineering in the field actively engaged with a corps, and later secured
a situation in the surveying department of the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company. In 1907 he became associated with Cassius Phinney,
who at that time served as county surveyor of Sacramento county.
Later with U. S. Marshall he established their present offices, their work
chiefly embracing plans and specifications for reclamation and irrigation
projects, municipal improvements, water works, sewerage and street systems,
hydro-electric work, land surveying and sub-divisions.
December 23, 1903, Mr. Cate
was united in marriage with Miss Cora A. Wasson, whose birth occurred in Forest
Hill, Placer county, and whose father, C. H. Wasson,
is a pioneer and well known mining man of Placer county. Mr.
and Mrs. Cate have three children:
Ronald Marshall, Claire Mary and Daniel, Jr., and in their plans and hopes for
their little ones the parents find happiness far exceeding their highest
dreams. In the line of his profession Mr. Cate is an
associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Fraternally he is
a member of Quincy Parlor No. 131, N. S. G. W., and in his enthusiastic and
practical aid toward all civic movements, he facilitates as well as encourages
the labor of his fellow citizens who recognize in him a man of exemplary and
conscientious principles.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Pages 873-874. Historic
Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.