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Benjamin Bates
Benjamin Bates or Ben Bates may refer to: * Several members of the American Bates family including: ** Benjamin Bates II (1716–1790), British physician, art connoisseur, and socialite ** Benjamin Bates IV (1808–1878), American rail industrialist, textile tycoon and philanthropist * Ben Bates (born 1961), American professional golfer * , coastal tanker built in 1956 {{disambiguation, hn=Bates, Benjamin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bates Family
The Bates family is an American political and banking family from Maine and Massachusetts whose members include a member of the Hell Fire Club, the 26th U.S. Attorney General serving under Abraham Lincoln, the second Governor of Missouri, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Arkansas, and a textile tycoon who founded the Bates Manufacturing Company and Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. The family includes various merchants, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. The family is related to the political Gilbert family and indirectly to the Alden family, the first family on the Mayflower. History Early prominence The Bates family traces its early origins to the Welsh Marcher Lords noble family Mortimer which was of Norman descent and connected to Henry Bate of Mechelen from their Norman roots. The family then spread from their ancestral Welsh seat at Gyrn Castle to Lydd in Kent, England. They have lived there since at least the 13th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Bates II
Benjamin Edward Bates II (13 March 1716 – 12 May 1790) was a British physician, art connoisseur, and socialite. Born into wealth, he was a prominent member of society and was selected to become a member of the Sir Francis Dashwood's Hellfire Club, ''The Monks of Medmenham''. He is the great-great-grandfather of Benjamin Bates IV, founder of Bates College.Hetherington 2014 Life and career Details of Bates early life are sketchy. He was born around 12 May 1716, somewhere in the North of England and was to have studied medicine in Edinburgh, though Benedict Nicolson, states that there is no record of a Benjamin Bates graduating in medicine from Edinburgh University at that time. Bates lived in Derby for a time, either as a child or after his studies. Around 1758 he bought a house at Rickford's Hill, in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, and set up as a general practitioner. He was married twice and had one daughter, Lydia. He may have worked as Sir Francis Dashwood's personal physi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Bates IV
Benjamin Edward Bates IV (; July 12, 1808 – January 14, 1878) was an American rail industrialist, textile tycoon and philanthropist. He was the wealthiest person in Maine from 1850 to 1878. Bates was born to a large family in Mansfield, Massachusetts. He moved to Bristol, Maine, for a working residency at B. T. Loring Company before he created the Davis, Bates & Turner, a craft goods and service firm in the early 1830s. After entering the textile business, he created the Bates Manufacturing Company in Lewiston, Maine, building its first mill in 1850. His company quickly became the largest employer per capita in Maine and the largest in Lewiston for three decades. As the dominant force in the already-extant Lewiston Water Power Company, he also oversaw the creation of the first canal in the city. At the start of the American Civil War, Bates correctly anticipated that the talk of secession in the Southern States would lead to a shortage of cotton. By buying up a large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
