Complex sentence: The son of a Yankee Baptist minister, Gates was born in Broome County, New York, graduated from the University of Rochester in 1877, and from the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1880.
Split into simpler sentences: The son of a Yankee Baptist minister, Gates was born in Broome County, New York. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1877, and from the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1880.