Batchelder, Samuel – Bates, Joshua
Batchelder, Samuel
manufacturer, inventor, author, was born June 8, 1784, in Jaffrey, N. H. In 1808 he began the manufacture of cotton at New Ipswich. Among his inventions, that of the dynamometer, for ascertaining the power for driving machinery, first used in the York mills in 1837, is perhaps the greatest. He is the author of History of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States.
He died Feb. 5, 1879, in Cambridge, Mass.
Batcheller, George S
soldier, statesman, was born July 25, 1836, in Batchellerville, N. Y. He reorganized the militia of New York and served as inspector-general from 1865 to 1869. He was appointed to represent the United States at the international tribunal of Egypt, and in 1883 was elected president of that body. In 1889 he was appointed consul-general to Egypt by President Harrison.
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.
Bate, William B
soldier, lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born Oct. 17, 1826, in Castalian Springs, Tenn.
He received an academic education; served as a private throughout the Mexican war in Louisiana and Tennessee regiments; and a year after returning from the Mexican war was elected to the Tennessee legislature. In 1854 he was elected attorney-general for the Nashville district for six years; was a presidential elector in 1860; was private, captain, colonel, brigadier-general, and major-general in the confederate service, surrendering with the army of Tennessee in 1865; and was three times dangerously wounded. After the close of the war he returned to Tennessee and resumed the practice of law; was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1868; served the national democratic executive committee for Tennessee twelve years; was an elector for the state-at-large on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876; in 1882 was elected governor of Tennessee, and re-elected in 1884 without opposition.
He was elected to the United States senate in 1887, and in 1893-99. on
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.
Bateman, Newton
educator, college president, was born July 27, 1822, in Fairfield, N. J. He came to Illinois in 1833, and graduated from Illinois college in 1843. He assisted in organizing the State Teachers' association of Illinois in 1854. In 1858 he founded the Illinois Teacher, and was its first editor. He became state superintendent of public instruction of Illinois in 1859, and to this office he was re-elected four times. In 1860 he issued the first of the series of reports, which are recognized as classic authority concerning Illinois pedagogic law. In 1874 he was chosen president of Knox college. He died Oct. 21, 1897, in Galesburg, Ill.
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, Charlotte Fiske
author, poet, was born Nov. 30, 1838, in New York city. She has published a volume of her collected verses, entitled Risk, and Other Poems. She has edited the Longfellow Birthday Book and The Seven Voices of Sympathy, compilations of Longfellow's prose and poetry, and the Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, a volume of poetical selections from English and American authors. She has also written some prose, which has not yet been published in a collected form. Miss Bates assisted Longfellow in compiling his Poems of Places, making ten translations expressly for the work. BATES, MRS. CLARA [DOTY], author, was born in 1838 in Ann Arbor, Mich.
She is a writer of juvenile tales and the author of Classics of Babyland Versified; Child Lore; On the Way to Wonderland; and Heart's Content. She died in 1895.
Bates, Cyrus S
an eminent clergyman of the episcopal church, was born Dec. 31, 1840, in Chester, Ohio.
He was among the first to volunteer in the northern army in 1861, and was distinguished for his bravery. He was severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. In 1865 he graduated from the Cincinnati Law school, and later from the Theological seminary at Gambier, Ohio. During six years he was professor of divinity in this seminary, and professor of philosophy in Kenyon college. For the last twelve years of his life he was rector of St. Paul's, Cleveland. He was a vigorous thinker and a speaker of great power, indefatigable in labor, and prominent in many lines of philanthropic work. He died April 19, 1896, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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, Edward
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1793, in Belmont, Va. He was elected a representative in congress from Missouri, serving from 1827 to 1829; and in 1830 was elected to the state senate. In 1834 he was again elected to the lower house of the legislature; in 1850 was appointed secretary of war, but declined the office; and in 1853 he was elected judge of the St. Louis land court, which office he resigned in 1856. In 1861 he was appointed attorney-general in President Lincoln's cabinet. He died March 25, 1869, in St.
Louis, Mo.
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.
Bates, J. Woodson
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.
Bates, James
physician, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Somerset county, Maine, from 1831 to 1833.
Bates, James W
congressman, was born in Goochland county, Va. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Arkansas from 1820 to 1823.
Bates, John Lewis
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 18, 1859, in Easton, Mass. He received his education at the Boston Latin school and the college and law departments of the Boston university. He has attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of New England, and is the senior member of the law firm of Bates and Bradish, of Boston, Mass.
In 1891-92 he was a member of the Boston common council; in 1894-97 served with distinction as a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives, and was speaker of the house in 1897.
Bates, Joseph Clement
lawyer, author, was born in July, 1836, in Richmond, Maine. He is a successful lawyer of San Francisco, Cal. He has published a work, Forms and Use of Blanks, and a paper entitled Horace Howes's Will Case.
Bates, Joshua
educator, college president, was born March 20, 1776, in Cohasset, Mass. In 1818 he accepted the presidency of Middlebury college, Vt., which position he filled for twenty years.
He died Jan. 14, 1854, in Dudley, Mass.
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