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sult.in of tl>e Suhi Archipelago in September ISOi). He l)ecame commander of the department of Soutliern Luzon in April 1900. and was promoted brigadier-general in the U. S. army in 1901.

BATES, John Lewis, governor of ]\Iassachu- setts. was born at North Easton, Mass.. Sept. 18. 1S59. son of the Rev. Lewis B. and Louisa D. (Field) Bates. He was graduated at Boston university, A.B.. 1882, LL.B., 1885 ; taught school at Jamestown, N.Y., 1882-83, and in the evening sclu-Kil at Boston, Mass., 1883-'85. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1885 and engaged in practice in Boston. He was a member of the common council. 1891-92 ; a representative in the state legislature, 1894-"90 ; speaker of the house, 1897-'99. and lieutenant-governor of the state, 1899-1902. He was elected governor of Massachu- setts by the Republican party to succeed Win- throp Miuray Crane for the terms 1903-'04.

B.\TES, Joshua, banker, was born at Wey- mouth. Mass.. in 1788, son of Col. Joshua Bates. He became London agent for Robert Gray, a Boston merciiant. in 1809, and established a bank- ing house with a son of Sir Thomas Baring, which was later merged into the house of Baring Brothers & Co. He settled various points at issue between the United States and Great Britain after the war of 1812. In 1852 he gave $50,000 to the Boston public library for the purcliase of standard bo<jks to be accessible to the public in a room wiiere one hundred could be seated. Bates Hall is named in his honor. He afterward gave his lil)rary of 30,000 volumes to the same institu- tion. He died in London. England, Sept. 24, 1864.

BATES, Katharine Lee, author, was born in Falmouth. Mass.. Aug. 12, 1859 ; daughter of the Rev. ■\Villiam and Cornelia Frances (Lee) Bates, granddaughter of the Rev, Joshua Bates, D.D., president of Middlebury college, Vermont. She was graduated at Weilesley in 1880 ; taught matiiematics. classics and English at tlie high school, Natick, Mass., 1880-'81 ; Latin at Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass., 1881 -'85 ; was an instruc- tor and associate professor in English literature at Wellesley college 1885-'91, and professor of English there from 1891. She is the author of "Rose and Thorn" (1890); "Hermit Island '' (1890); "Religious Drama " (1893); "American Literature" (1898); "Spanish Highways and By' Ways" (1900), of contributions to magazines and of editions of several of Shakespeare's plays and other English cla.ssics.

BATES, riartin W., senator, was born at Salisbury. Cmi.. F.-b. 24. 1787. He studied law, and removed to Dover, Del., where he engaged in practice. He served several terms in the state legislature; was a member of the state constitu- tional convention in 1850, and was elected to the U. S. senate to succeed Joseph P. Comegys, 1857.

Bates served from December. 1858, to the end of Senator Clayton's term, March 4, 1859, acting on the committees of pensions and revolu- tionary pensions, and died at Dover, Del., Jan. 1, 1^09.

BATES, Samuel Penniman, educator, was born at Mendon, Mass.. Jan. 29. 1827. He was engaged in teaching at ^lilford, Mass., when six- teen years old, and. fitting himself for college, was graduated from Brown university in 1851 with the degree of A. M. He was occupied as a pri- vate tutor in 1851 and 1852. For five years fol- lowiijg he acted as principal of the academy at Meadville, Pa., and as instructor of a class of teachers to whom he lectured on the theory and practice of teaching, this being an embryo nor- mal school, and from 1857 to 1860 was superin- tendent of schools in Crawford coimty, Pa. This office he resigned to become deputy superin- tendent of public instruction in Pennsylvania, and in 1866 he was appointed state historian by Governor Curtin. From 1874 to 1881 he acted as superintendent of schools in Meadville, Pa., travelling in England, Scotland, and on the con- tinent of Europe in 1877. He was president of the public Library association from 1872 to 1880, a member of the Pennsylvania historical society, and a member of Crawford county historical society. His published writings include: ''Insti- tute Lectures on Mental and Moral Culture "' (1859) ; " Method of Teachers' Institutes " (1862) ; articles on "Physical Culture"' (1862- '63); "Liberal Education'' (1864); " History of the Colleges of Pennsylvania " ; " History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers" (5 vols., 1866-'73); "Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania'' (1873) ; " Martial Deeds of Pennsylvania " (1875); "Battle of Gettysburg" (1878); "Life of Gen- eral O. B. Knowies" (1878); " History of Craw- ford County, Pennsylvania " (1878); " Battle of Chancellors ville " (1882) ; " History of Pennsyl- vania"; "History of Greene County, Penn- sylvania"; "Digest of School Laws"; and contributions to volume twelve of the Encyclo- paedia Brittannica. He received the degree of LL.D. from Westminster college in 1862, and from .A.lleghany college in 1877.

BATTELLE, Gordon, clergyman, was born at Newport. Ohio. Nov. 14. 1S14. After hisgraduation from Alleghany college, in 1840. he studied for the Methodist ministry, and in 1842 was given a preacher's license. The following year he was offered the position of principal of the Clarksburg. Va.. academy, and accepted it, during which time he continued preaching and was made deacon and presiding elder. In 1856 he was elected a member of the general conference, and again in 1800, and at the outbreak of tiie civil war he be- came a visitor to the camps located in western