Bates family
The Bates family is an American political and banking family from Maine and Massachusetts whose members include a prominent member of the prestigious 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 prominent 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.
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The grave of Benjamin Bates IV located in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| Current region | New England |
| Place of origin | Lydd, Kent, England |
| Connected families | Alden Family Gilbert Family |
| Estate(s) | The Campus of Bates College Frye Street Historic District |
The family is related to the prominent political Gilbert family and indirectly to the Alden family, the first family on the Mayflower.
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