Benjamin Edward BATES

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12 July 1808 , Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA

Died

14 January 1878 , Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Elkanah BATES Hannah COPELAND

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Born: 12 July 1808 in Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA

Father: Elkanah BATES

Mother: Hannah COPELAND

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Benjamin Edward married Josephine Louisa SHEPARD abt. 1835 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephine Louisa SHEPARD was born 9 November 1815 in Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA (Foxboro). Josephine Louisa died 27 December 1842 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Benjamin Edward married (2) Sarah Chapman GILBERT abt. 1862 . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Sarah Chapman GILBERT was born 28 August 1832 in New York, USA. Sarah Chapman died 3 November 1882 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA (East, North, South) (Allston) (Readville) (Roslindale).

Benjamin Edward BATES died 14 January 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA .

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Recorded occupation: American rail industrialist, textile tycoon and philanthropist

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Benjamin Edward BATES married

Josephine Louisa SHEPARD
Marriage date: abt. 1835
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Children of Benjamin Edward BATES and Josephine Louisa SHEPARD

Josephine Louisa BATES

Born: 17 June 1838, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 31 March 1886, Manhattan, New York, USA

Benjamin Edward BATES married

Sarah Chapman GILBERT
Marriage date: abt. 1862
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Children of Benjamin Edward BATES and Sarah Chapman GILBERT

Benjamin Edward BATES

Born: 27 December 1862, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 14 May 1906, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

Lillian Gilbert BATES

Born: 9 July 1871, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 7 April 1951, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Sarah Frances BATES

Born: 21 March 1886, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 11 March 1937, Montclair, Essex, New Jersey, USA

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Birth — 1808
12 July 1808
Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA

1809 - James Madison becomes President of the United States

The War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, lasting from 1812 to 1815. It was primarily fueled by issues such as trade restrictions due to Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and British support of Native American tribes against American expansion. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring pre-war boundaries but resolving few of the initial disputes.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 - James Monroe becomes President of the United States

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1825 - John Quincy Adams becomes President of the United States

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 - Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 - Andrew Jackson becomes President of the United States

1830 - The Indian Removal Act marks the beginning of the forced relocation of five tribes of native Americans, known as Trail of Tears

1837 - Martin Van Buren becomes President of the United States

1838 Birth of Child
Josephine Louisa BATES was born 17 June 1838, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Benjamin Edward was 29 years old.

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.

1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President of the United States

1841 - John Tyler becomes President of the United States

1842 Death of Spouse/Partner
Josephine Louisa SHEPARD died 27 December 1842, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1845 - James Knox Polk becomes President of the United States

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President of the United States

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1862 Birth of Child
Benjamin Edward BATES was born 27 December 1862, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (East, North, South) (Allston) (Readville) (Roslindale)

Benjamin Edward was 54 years old.

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1871 Birth of Child
Lillian Gilbert BATES was born 9 July 1871, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA

Benjamin Edward was 63 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

Obituary
Benjamin E. Bates
Mr. Benjamin K. Bates, President of the Bank of Commerce, died at his house on Arlington Street Monday evening, after a short illness. He had not been entirely well for some time past, but had attended to his large and varied business until a fortnight ago, when an attack of pleurisy confined him to his house. There had been some improvement in his health and he fully expected and his friends hoped for, a speedy recovery. Early Monday evening he was stricken with heart disease and soon expired.

Mr. Bates was born in Norton, Massachusetts in 1808. He came from the academy in Wrentham, where he studied and taught for a short time, to Boston and entered the dry goods store of Barnabas T. Loring, on Washington Street, succeeding to his business a few years later as a member of the firm of Davis, Bates & Turner, afterwards Bates Turner & Co., one of the largest dry goods jobbing and importing houses in the city. He early became interested in the development of the...Read full story

The Boston Daily Advertiser
Boston, Massachusetts
January 16, 1878

Death — 1878
14 January 1878
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
He died at the age of 69.

1886 Birth of Child
Sarah Frances BATES was born 21 March 1886, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (East, North, South) (Allston) (Readville) (Roslindale)

Benjamin Edward was 77 years old.

Benjamin Edward BATES - Canal Hill and Bates Mills The Bates Mill is a textile factory company founded in 1850 and located at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. The mill

Canal Hill and Bates Mills

The Bates Mill is a textile factory company founded in 1850 and located at 35 Canal Street in Lewiston, Maine. The mill served as Maine's largest employer through the 1860s, and early profits from the mill provided much of the initial capital for nearby Bates College.

Benjamin Bates, a Boston entrepreneur, founded the textile mill in 1850 with several co-investors in the Bates Manufacturing Company. Maine Governor John Hubbard signed the incorporation act on August 16, 1850 and Mill #1 was completed in 1852. Bates built the mill in Lewiston due to its location at Lewiston Falls, which initially provided power to the mill. The Mill was operated by water power from the Androscoggin River, and combined power spinning and weaving on looms. wikipedia

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