Bates
Bates names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Bates JOHN COALTER, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN COALTER, an American military officer, born in St. Charles co., Mo., Aug. 26, 1842; educated at Washington University, St. Louis; entered the regular army as a Lieutenant in the 11th United States Infantry, May 14, 1861; served on the staff of General Meade from the battle of Gettysburg to promoted Captain the close of the war; p , May 1, 1863; Major, May 6, 1882; and United States Infantry, Colonel of the 2d April 25, 1892. On May 4, 1898, he was appointed a Brigadier-General of Volunteers; on July 8 was promoted to Major General for his services in the Santiago campaign; on April 13, 1899, was honorably discharged under this commission, and on the same day was recommissioned General of Volunteers. In a Brigadier- February, 1899, he was appointed Military Governor of the province of Santa Clara, Cuba, and in April following was ordered to duty in the Philippines, where he several times greatly distinguished himself in the latter part of that year and the early part of 1900. In March, 1900, he was assigned to the command of the department of southern Luzon; promoted Major-General (1902). In 1906 became chief of staff U. S. A. and retired same year with the rank of Lieutenant-General.
Bates LINDON WALLACE, an American civil engineer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LINDON WALLACE, an American civil engineer, born in Marshfield, Vt., in 1858. He was educated at Yale University and became assistant engineer of the Northern Pacific and Oregon Pacific railways. This was followed by service as director of engineering and manager of various railway, dock and terminal contracts in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and other States. He was retained from 1896 to 1902 by the Belgian Government to prepare reports and projects for the improvement of the port of Antwerp. He was also consulting engineer on the enlargement of the Suez Canal and on rivers and harbors in Russia. He designed eight harbors for the Government of Queensland, Australia, and did important engineering work for the Government of South Australia. He built several large hydraulic dredges for the Russian, Australian and Indian Governments, and collaborated with other engineers in improving the port of Shanghai. He was contracting engineer on important work in Galveston, Tex., and designed the Three Lake" Panama Canal. During the World War he served as vice-chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium and was chairman also of the engineering commission of the Submarine Defense Association. He was a member of several engineering societies and received many medals for his services in engineering.
Bates BLANCHE, an American actress
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BLANCHE, an American actress, born in Portland, Ore., in 1873. She removed in 1876 with her parents to San Francisco and was educated at the public schools at that city. Her first appearance on the stage was made in San Francisco in 1894 and in the following year she starred in "The Senator." After playing leading parts in various comedies, she appeared in Shakespearean rôles in Augustin Daly's Company in New York. She achieved great success in the title rôle of Cigarette in "Under Two Flags," and played the leading parts in "The Darling of the Gods" and "The 1920 she Girl of the Golden West." In appeared in "The Famous Mrs. Fair." In 1912 she married George Creel.
Bates ARLO, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARLO, an American author, born in East Machias, Me., Dec. 16, 1850. He graduated from Bowdoin in 1876, when he engaged in literary work in Boston, and afterward became Professor of English Literature in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of poems and novels, including "The Pagans" (New York, 1884); "A Lad's Love"; "The Philistines" (1888); "Berries of the Brier" (1886), poems; "Talks on Writing English"; "Talks on the Study of Literature" (1897); "The Puri- "; "Under the Beech Tree"; "Diary tans tans of a Saint" (1902); "The Intoxicated Ghost" (1908); etc. He died in 1918.
Bates KATHARINE LEE, an American story writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
KATHARINE LEE, an American story writer, poet, and educator, born in Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 12, 1859; was called to the chair of English Literature in Wellesley College in 1891; edited collections of ballads, etc.; and wrote juvenile stories, including "Rose and Thorn" (1889); "The English Religious Drama" (1893); "The College Beautiful and Other Poems" (1887); "History of American Literature" (1898); "Spanish Highways and Byways" (1900); "Gretna Green to Land's End" (1907); "America the Beautiful" (1911); etc.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 listed Katharine Lee Bates as a "story writer, poet, and educator" and buried "America the Beautiful" (1911) at the end of a string of travel books and juvenile tales. That poem, written after she saw the view from Pikes Peak in 1893, is now the only thing most Americans know her for, sung to Samuel Ward's tune "Materna" and repeatedly proposed as a national anthem; modern accounts also discuss her long partnership with the Wellesley economist Katharine Coman, which the old entry passes over in silence. Of the others, all were alive or newly dead when the article was set: John Coalter Bates had in fact died in February 1919, Blanche Bates went on acting until the 1930s and died in 1941, and Arlo Bates's novels have largely dropped out of print.
Written for this edition, 2026.