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192 BATEMAN, Kate Josephine, actress, b. in Baltimore, Md., 7 Oc-t., 1842. Her father, H. L. Bateinan, was a well-known theatrical manager, and her mother, Frances, an actress, manager, and the author of several dramas. Kate and her sister Ellen (Mrs. Greppo) were educated for the stage from childhood. The two girls made their first appearance, when Kate was only three years old, at Louisville, Ky., in "The Babes in the Wood," and for ten years played together as "The Bateman Children." Miss Bateman retired from the stage in 1856, but reappeared on 19 March, 1860, as Evangeline in her mother's drama of that name at Winter Garden, New York. In December, 1862, she appeared in Boston as Leah, a part in which she has made her reputation, and which she played in all the large cities of the United States. Her first appearance abroad was made on 1 Oct., 1868, at the Adelphi theatre, London, where "Leah" had a run of 211 nights. After a provincial tour and a reappearance at the Adelphi as Julia in the "Hunchback," Miss Bateman took a farewell of the English public at her Majesty's theatre, in the character of Juliet, 22 Dec, 1865. In October, 1866, she married George Crowe, formerly editor of the "London News." She returned to the stage in 1868, and in 1872 made a success in " Medea." In March, 1875, Miss Bateman's father, who had been for some years manager of the Lyceum theatre, died, and her mother continued the management, opening the season with a revival of "Macbeth," in which Miss Bateman and Henry Irving took the principal parts. In April, 1876, she took the title role in Tennyson's " Queen Mary," which, though an artistic success, proved a failure financially. Some time after this Miss Bateman became lessee of the Sadler's Wells theatre. Her sisters, Isabel and Virginia Frances, are also actresses.—Isabel, who was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, 28 Dec, 1854, was educated in England, appeared on the stage in Liverpool when fifteen years of age, and has played Juliet, Lady Teazle, Portia, and Pauline.

BATEMAN, Newton, educator, b. in Fairfield, N. J., 27 July, 1822; d. in Galesburg. 111.. 22 Oct., 1897, was graduated at Illinois college, Jacksonville, in 1843. After studying for a time in Lane theological seminary, he travelled extensively in the United States and then became principal of a St. Louis school. He was professor of mathematics at St. Charles college, Missouri, from 1847 to 1851, and then became the head of the Jacksonville, Ill., public free school, acting at the same time as superintendent of the city schools and commissioner for the county. In 1858 he was principal of the Jacksonville female academy, and in the same year was chosen state superintendent of public instruction. Here he served altogether ten years, publishing five valuable reports and being active in establishing the state normal university. He had charge of the correspondence of the state provost-marshal general from 1862 to 1864, and afterward resumed his place as state superintendent. In 1875 he became president of Knox college, Galesburg, Ill. Dr. Bateman was a member of the state board of health for more than twenty years, and he served three terms as its president.

BATES, Arlo, author, b. in East Machias, Me., 16 Dec, 1850. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1876, after which he removed to Boston and engaged in literary work. In January, 1878, he became secretary of the young men's republican committee, of Massachusetts, and editor of the "Broadside," a paper devoted to civil-service reform. In August, 1880, he became editor of the Boston "Sunday Courier." Besides numerous magazine articles he has published '"Patty's Perversities" (Boston, 1881); "F. Sevmour Hayden and Engraving " (a pamphlet, 1882); "Mr. Jacobs" (1883) ; "The Pagans" (New York, 1884); "A Wheel of Fire " (1885); "Old Salem," edited (Boston, 1886); and "Berries of the Brier," poems (1886).

BATES, Barnabas, postal reformer, b. in Edmonton, England, in 1785; d. in Boston, 11 Oct., 1850. While yet a child he came to the United States, and became a Baptist preacher in Rhode Island, where he was also for some time collector of the port of Bristol under President Adams. He became a Unitarian, and established in New York in 1825 a weekly paper called the "Christian Inquirer." During the administration of President Jackson he received an appointment in the New York post-office, and was for some time acting postmaster. Here he became interested in the cheapening of letter postage, and advocated it in every way for many years, first investigating the subject thoroughly and then writing and speaking on it continually. He finally succeeded in reducing the rate of land postage, and at the time of his death was laboring for a corresponding reduction in ocean postage.

BATES, Charlotte Fiske, author, b. in New York city, 30 Nov., 1838. Her father died in her infancy, and after 1847 she lived in Cambridge, Mass. Miss Bates was educated in the public schools of that city, began to write poetry early in life, contributing to "Our Young Folks" and other magazines, and published a volume of her collected verses, entitled "Risk, and other Poems " (Boston, 1879). She edited the "Longfellow Birthday-Book" and "The Seven Voices of Sympathy" (1881), compilations of Longfellow's prose and poetry, and the "Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song" (1882), a volume of poetical selections from English and American authors. She also wrote 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. In 1891 she married Adolphe Roge, who died in 1896.

BATES, David, author, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., about 1810 ; d. there, 25 Jan., 1870. He was the author of numerous meritorious poems, many of which were published in book form under the title "The Eolian" (Philadelphia, 1848). He was the author of the well-known poem "Speak Gently," about which, shortly after its publication, there was a notable controversy and counter-claims as to its authorship. "Childhood" is another of his best-known pieces. A complete edition of his poems was edited by his son (Philadelphia, 1870).

BATES, David Stanhope, engineer, b. near Morristown, N. J., 10 June, 1777; d. in Rochester, N. Y., 28 Nov., 1839. He was the son of a revolutionary officer, and was trained under the tuition of Dr. Witherspoon, being intended for the ministry. He preferred a business career, became a clerk, then agent for the Scotchman George Scriba, proprietor of the settlement at Rotterdam, in Oneida co., N. Y., afterward superintendent of the iron-mills established there by eastern capitalists, judge of common pleas of Oneida co., and in 1818-'24 was assistant engineer on the middle division of the Erie canal. The first aqueduct at Rochester, N. Y., was designed and superintended by him, though the red sandstone of which it was built was adopted contrary to the advice of all the engineers, who recommended limestone, the material of the present structure, which was erected after the first aqueduct had been carried away. He was afterward employed by the state of Ohio to survey a