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HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Cleveland. He died April 19, 1896, in Cleveland, Ohio. Bates, Daniel M., clergyman, author, was born in 1849 in Delaware. He was the author of The Apostolic Church; and Christ in Modern Thought. He died in 1899. Bates, Daniel Moore, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 28, 1821, in Laurel, Del. In 1842 he began the practice of law; and in 1849 was appointed on a commission to codify the laws of Delaware. In 1852-61 he was United States district attorney. He died March 28, 1879, in Richmond, Va. Bates, David, author, poet, was born about 1810 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the author of the popular poem entitled Speak Gently, about which there was a notable controversy and counterclaims as to its authorship. Childhood is another of his best known pieces. complete edition of his poems was edited by his son. He died Nov. 35, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa. Bates, David H., government official, telegrapher, author, was bom July 3, 1843, in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1861-66 he was cipher operator and manager in the war department telegraph office; and has been a superintendent and vice-president of the Western union telegraph company. He is now vice-president of the Gamewell fire alarm telegraph company of New York City. He is the author of Lincoln in the Telegraph Office. Bates, David Stanhope, civil engineer, was born June 10, 1777, near Morristown, N.J. He was judge of common pleas of Oneida county, N.Y.; and in 1818-24 was assistant engineer on the middle division of the Erie canal. The first aqueduct at Rochester was designed and superintended by him. He died Nov. 28, 1839, in Rochester, N.Y. Bates, Delevan, soldier, was bom in Nbav York. In 1862 he was second-lieutenant in the one hundred and twenty-first regiment New York volunteer infantry; became colonel; and in 1864 was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. He died in action July 30, 1864, at Cemetery Hill, Va. Bates, Dewey, painter, artist, was born in 1851 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a student in the Ecole des beaux arts in Paris and as a pupil of Gerome. His studio is in Philadelphia;, and his pictures are to be seen at all the principal exhibitions. Bates, Edward, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1793, in Belmont, Va. In 1827-29 he was a representative from Missouri to the twentieth congress. In 1820-21 he was attorney-general of Missouri; and in 1830 was elected to the state senate. In 1834 he was again elected to the lower house of the legislature; and in 1850 was secretary of war. 1853-56 he was judge of the St. Louis land court. In 1861-63 he was attorneygeneral. He died March 25, 1869, in St. Lou-

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Mo. Bates, Erastus Newton, soldier, financier,

was the

bom civil

in 1828 in Massachusetts. During of briga-

war he attained the rank

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dier-general. He served as treasurer of the state of Illinois. He died May 29, 1898, in

Minneapolis, Minn. Bates, Frank Greene, educator, historian, author, was born Sept. 22, 1868, at Shawomet Beach, R.I. He is professor of history and political science in Alfred university of New York. He is the author of Rhode Island and the Formation of the Union. Bates, Frederick, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born June 23, 1777, in Belmont, Va.. In 1805-08 he was the first United States judge for the territory of Michigan. He became a citizen of St. Louis, Mo.; and in 1824-25 was governor of Missouri. He died while in office Aug. 21, 1825, in St. Louis, Mo. Bates, Mrs. Harriet Leonora, litterateur, author, was born in 1856. She was the author of

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Woodland Wooing; Old Salem; and

Prince Vance. She died in 1886. Bates, Henry Clay, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 29, 1843, in Derby, Vt. In 1864

he enlisted in the nineteenth Massachusetts heavy artillery, which afterward became company C, fourth regiment Massachusetts

heavy

artillery.

He

practiced law in

St.

Johnsbury, Vt.; and held many town and county offices. He was a delegate at large to the national republican convention in 1900;

and was lieutenant-governor of Vermont in 1890-1900. In 1901 he became judge of the court of appeals in the Philippine Islands. Bates, Herbert, educator, author, poet,

was

born Junr- 29, 1868, in Hyde Park, Mass. He received a thorough education; and in 1890 graduated from Harvard university. He is a successful educator; and has been a journalist of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a member of the faculty of the university of Nebraska; and is now a teacher in the manual training high school of

Brooklyn, N.Y. He is the author of Songs of Exile, a volume of po-

ems; and editor of school editions of ColerAncient Mariner, Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal, and of Ruskin's Sesame and Liidge's lies.

Bates, Isaac Chapman, congressman. United States senator, was bom May 14, 1780, in Granville, Mass. He was frequently in the state legislature and a member of the executive council. In 1827-35 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second and the twentythird congresses. In 1841-45 he was United States senator. He died March 16, 1845, in Washington, D.C. Bates, J. Woodson, lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to the southwest, and while residing at the post of Arkansas was appointed a United States judge for that territory prior to 1884.