Harper C LeCates

"while cranking an automobile, Harper LeCates was struck in the arm, resulting in one of the bones being fractured"
from The News journal 30 Dec 1913

Harper Clayton LeCates (1896 - 1977) lived in Delmar at 711 E State street.  He had a number of jobs from working at DuPont during the war to State Game Warden to house painter but mostly he was a house painter.  He was on the Delmar town council.  He married Martha Pearl Nichols (1898-1993) daughter of Ernest Nichols and Annie Elizabeth Beachamp Nichols.  He was the son of John C Lecates and Annie B Dennis LeCates.   Harper and Pearl had a son Linwood (1919-2011)