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Benjamin Edward Bates (1808-1878) was a New England industrialist, who was the namesake and a founder of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Year 1808 (MDCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
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Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ...
Main Street, also U.S. Route 202 in downtown Lewiston Coordinates: Counties Androscoggin County Area - City 35. ...
Benjamin Bates was born in Mansfield, Massachusetts in 1808 to Sarah and Elkanah Bates, a farmer, cotton manufacturer and merchant. He attended local schools and the academy in Wrentham from 1823 to 1825. After moving to Boston, Massachusetts in 1829, Bates entered the dry goods business with Barnabas T. Loring on Washington Street. At age 24, he made a public profession of faith, and he was a lifelong Congregationalist and temperance supporter. Bates taught Sunday school at several churches in Boston including Park Street Church and was an active member of First Church in Boston. Mansfield is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. ...
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Park Street Church, Boston The Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts is an active Conservative Congregational Church at the corner of Tremont Street and Park Street. ...
Bates co-founded the firm of Davis, Bates & Turner (later Bates & Turner), which existed from 1833 until 1847. After the dissolution of the firm in 1847, Bates served as president and on the board of several corporations, including several railroads, First National Bank of Commerce in Boston and the Lewiston Water Power Company in Lewiston, Maine, which built the first canal in the city. Bates was also the largest investor in the Bates Mill in Lewiston, which opened in 1854 and produced textiles into the 21st century. Main Street, also U.S. Route 202 in downtown Lewiston Coordinates: Counties Androscoggin County Area - City 35. ...
Correctly anticipating that the increasing talk of secession in the Southern states might eventually lead to a shortage of cotton (thereby creating a financial opportunity for himself), Bates stockpiled cotton prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. He then made substantial profits by producing uniforms for the Union Army and other textiles during the War. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Bates was the largest of the early donors to Bates College. He first made substantial donations to the school when it was known at the Maine State Seminary through the Lewiston Power Company. In 1862 he personally pledged $6,000 to the school. Then in 1863 the Seminary's president, Oren B. Cheney renamed the College after Mr. Bates without his knowledge. Bates' donations to the College totalled over $100,000 and he pledged another $100,000 to be paid after his death, but due to the economic recession in the 1870s, his estate was substantially lessened. After his death in 1878, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts eventually ruled that Bates' heirs did not have to pay Bates College the pledged $100,000. This left the College financially burdened for several years. Benjamin Bates was buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery. Bates College still exists today and is commonly known as one of the "Little Ivies." Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ...
Original name of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine from 1855-1863. ...
Oren B. Cheney Oren Burbank Cheney was the founder of Bates College. ...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in the United States commonwealth of Massachusetts. ...
Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ...
Mount Auburn Cemetery Mount Auburn Cemetery Hunnewell family obelisk Civil War memorial Founded in 1831 as Americas first garden cemetery, Mount Auburn Cemetery is an Elysium where, traditionally, chaste classical monuments were set in rolling landscaped terrain. ...
Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ...
Little Ivies is a colloquialism referring to a group of small, selective[1] American colleges and universities; however, it does not denote any official organization. ...
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Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ...
Seal of Bates College Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, Class of 1936 This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. ...
Main Street, also U.S. Route 202 in downtown Lewiston Coordinates: Counties Androscoggin County Area - City 35. ...
References - Oren Cheney, "Eulogy on the Life of Benjamin Edward Bates," Bates Student, June, 1878, 130-149, (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College).
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