William H. Gates snr, a lawyer raised in the Great Depression who helped his son Bill give away an immense fortune, has died
William H. Gates snr, a lawyer raised in the Great Depression who helped his son give away an immense fortune, has died. He was 94.
The elder Gates operated the slide projector at his son's first keynote address at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, in 1983. "We have to be helpful to each other or it would be an impossible world," he said in a May 2009 interview with the Seattle Times. "This is not only good religion but very practical for economy and humanity."Earlier, he played a role in the development of Microsoft, the world's largest software company.
William Henry Gates II was born November 30, 1925, in Bremerton, Washington, an hour's ferry ride from Seattle. He said in his memoir that he learned his work ethic from his father, who owned a furniture store in a town hit hard by the Great Depression.With his Boy Scout troop, Gates felled trees and worked two-man crosscut saws to build a lodge in the woods. He became an Eagle Scout.
They married two years later. In addition to the son they called "Trey" -- for William III, his name before father and son became simply snr and jnr -- the couple had two daughters, Kristianne and Libby.
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