Oren Burbank Cheney
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Oren Burbank Cheney was an American statesman and minister who was a key figure in the abolitionist movement in the United States during the later 19th century. Along with textile tycoon Benjamin Bate
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Oren Cheney's father, Moses Cheney, a prominent minister and abolitionist
Dartmouth during the 1800s
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Benjamin E. Bates
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Benjamin Edward Bates was an American rail industrialist, textile tycoon, and philanthropist prominent in New England. His financial support and patronage of the Maine State Seminary with Oren Burbank
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…statesman and minister who was a key figure in the abolitionist movement in the United States during the later 19th century. Along with textile tycoon Benjamin Bates, he founded Bates College as the first coeducational college in New England which is widely considered his magnum opus. Cheney is one of the most…
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Merchant's Row, Boston, corner of State Street. Central Street runs parallel to State, one block away.
Alexander De Witt advised Bates on development strategy in Lewiston.
Bates Mill No. 1 and Canal, circa 1890s