Benjamin Edward Bates IV was an American rail industrialist, textile tycoon and philanthropist. He was the wealthiest person in Maine from 1850 to 1878.
Benjamin Bates IV
Workers in industrial Lewiston, in the late 19th century
Tompkins square riot in the 1870s from lack of credit stability of Manhattan banks
Alexander De Witt advised Bates on development strategy in Lewiston.
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.
The grave of Benjamin Bates IV located in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Edward Bates, sitting next to Abraham Lincoln at the First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
Bates Mill & Canal
Governor of Missouri, Frederick Bates