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Batchelor, George – Bates, Isaac C

Batchelor, George

clergyman, author. He was born in 1836 in Connecticut. He is a unitarian clergyman, and the author of Social Equilibrium and Other Problems, Ethical and Religious.

Bate, Henry C

soldier, was born July 28, 1839, in Bledsoe's Lick, Tenn. He served in the civil war as a confederate, and attained the rank of major.

Bateman, Ephraim

physician, state senator, congressman, was born in Cedarville, N. J. He was well educated, and adopted the profession of medicine. He was a representative in congress from 1815 to 1823; and a senator in congress from 1826 to 1829. He died Jan. 29, 1829, in Cedarville, N. J.

Bateman, Isabel

actress, was born Dec. 28, 1854, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Her family moved to England in 1863. Two years later she made her début in a child's character in London. For six years after 1872 she played the leading characters with Henry Irving. Most of her acting has been done in the theaters of London.

Bateman, Kate J

actress, was born Oct. 7, 1842, in Baltimore, Md. Her father became the manager of the Lyceum theater in London. She was introduced to the London public by P. T. Barnum in conjunction with her young sister, as the Bateman Children.

Her married name was Crowe. Her best character was that of Leah in a play of that name.

Bates, Arlo

educator, author, was born Dec. 16, 1850, in East Machias, Maine. He is professor of English literature in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Talks on Writing English; The Pagans; Patty's Perversities; A Wheel of Fire; In the Bundle of Time; A Lad's Love; The Philistines; A Book o' Nine Tales. His verse includes Berries of the Brier; Sonnets in Shadow; A Poet and his Self; Told in the Gate; and The Torch-Bearers.

Bates, Benjamin E

philanthropist. Bates college, of Lewiston, Maine, was controlled by the free baptists; founded in 1863, and named after Benjamin E. Bates, of Boston, who contributed $200,000 to its endowment fund.

Bates, David

author, was born about 1810 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the author of the well-known poem Speak Gently, about which, shortly after its publication, there was a notable controversy and counterclaims as to its authorship. Childhood is another of his best known pieces. A complete edition of his poems was edited by his son. He died Nov. 25, 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Bates, Dewey

painter, was born in 1851 in Philadelphia. At an early age he went abroad to study art, first entering the schools of the royal academy of Antwerp, and subsequently spending several years as a student in the Ecole des beaux arts in Paris and as a pupil of Gérôme.

Bates, Frederick

jurist, governor, was born June 23, 1777, in Belmont, Va.

He was appointed by President Jefferson in 1805 the first United States judge for the territory of Michigan, and having subsequently become a citizen of Missouri was elected governor of Missouri, serving from 1824 until his death, Aug. 21, 1825.

BATES, MRS. HARRIET LEONORA [VOSE], author, was born in 1856. She was the author of A Woodland Wooing; Old Salem; and Prince Vance. She died in 1886.

Bates, Isaac C

state senator, congressman, was born May 14, 1780, in Granville, Mass. He graduated at Yale college in 1802, and studied law and attained a high position as an advocate. He was frequently in the state legislature and a member of the executive council; was a representative in congress from 1827 to 1833; and was a senator in congress from 1841 to 1845. He died March 16, 1845, in Washington, D. C.