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He was born on January 29, 1827 at Mendon, Massachussets, the son of Laban and Mary (Thayer) Bates.
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He was born on January 29, 1827 at Mendon, Massachussets, the son of Laban and Mary (Thayer) Bates.
He received his education in the common schools of Massachusetts, at Worcester Academy, and at Brown University. He graduated from the last-named institution in 1851.
His intellectual interests were diversified. While in college he was proficient in mathematics and philosophy. The year after his graduation he devoted part of his time to a study of Milton and Shakespeare and for the five years following taught ancient languages in the academy at Meadville, Pa. While at Meadville he gained a local reputation as a lecturer on educational topics at teachers' institutes and served as principal of the academy from 1851 to 1857.
He then served as superintendent of the Crawford County schools until his appointment as deputy statesuperintendent of public instruction in 1860. He was an active member of the National Teachers' Association and strongly influenced the agitation on the subject of founding a great national university, where professors for colleges and universities might be trained in the science of teaching. His lecture on "Liberal Education" was published in Barnard's American Journal of Education, March 1865, pp. 155-76. He was designated by Gov. Curtin to visit the colleges of the state and report upon their condition, and was employed by Edward James of West Chester to prepare a brief exposition of the school laws of Pennsylvania for use in James's volume of Township and Local Laws. His thorough acquaintance with the details of the routine of teaching made it possible for him to organize efficiently the details of the work of the Department of Public Instruction. He prepared a series of articles on the subject of physical culture, for the Pennsylvania School Journal, after pursuing a thorough course on the subject at the Boston School of Physical Culture. Maj. William C. Armor, feeling that Bates was eminently capable, employed him to write Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania (1873).
In 1866 Gov. Curtin appointed him state historian, a position created by the state legislature for the purpose of gathering material and forming complete accounts of the organizations from Pennsylvania that engaged in the Civil War. The results of his efforts were published in the History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, in five volumes (1869 - 70). In 1877 Bates toured Europe and upon his return prepared a series of lectures on "Art Centers of Italy, Naples, Rome, Venice and Florence, " which are in the possession of the Meadville Public Library.
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He married Miss Sarah Josephine Bates of Massachusetts in August 1856, and they were the parents of seven children all of whom were active in the life of the community and state.