Kearton Coates [SEP] position held
Kearton Coates
Kearton Coates (May 13, 1820 – April 16, 1893) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Biography.
Coates was born on May 13, 1820 in Gunnerside, England. He moved to Platteville, Wisconsin in 1842 and to Linden, Wisconsin in 1844. He and his wife had 15 children. Coates died on April 16, 1893 and is buried in Edmund, Wisconsin.
Career.
Coates became a member of the Assembly in 1875. Previously, Coates was Chairman
had three sons and two daughters.
Cherry married Mary Burwood Coates in 1900, with whom he had a son, also named Cherry, and a daughter, Nina. They divorced in 1920, and he married Ada Forrest, a South African soprano, in 1922. He died in 1940 after reading for the BBC's "Children's Hour". The Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award was created in his honour.
Photography.
Cherry Kearton specialised in animal photography, having taken the first ever