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sultan of the Sulu Archipelago in September 1899. He became commander of the department of Southern Luzon in April 1900. and was promoted brigadier-general in the U.S. army in 1901.

BATES, John Lewis, governor of Massachusetts. was born at North Easton, Mass., Sept. 18, 1859. son of the Rev. Lewis B. and Louisa D. (Field) Bates. He was graduated at Boston university, A.B., 1882, LL.B., 1885; taught school at Jamestown, N.Y., 1882-'83, and in the evening school at Boston, Mass., 1883-'85. He was admitted to the bar in 1885 and engaged in practice in Boston. He was a member of the common council, 1891-'92; a representative in the state legislature, 1894-'90 ; speaker of the house, 1897-'99. and lieutenant-governor of the state, 1899-'1902. He was elected governor of Massachusetts by the Republican party to succeed Winthrop Murray Crane for the terms 1903-'04.

BATES, Joshua, banker, was born at Weymouth. Mass., in 1788, son of Col. Joshua Bates. He became London agent for Robert Gray, a Boston merchant. in 1809, and established a banking house with a son of Sir Thomas Baring, which was later merged into the house of Baring Brothers & Co. He settled various points at issue between the United States and Great Britain after the war of 1812. In 1852 he gave $50,000 to the Boston public library for the purchase of standard books to be accessible to the public in a room where one hundred could be seated. Bates Hall is named in his honor. He afterward gave his library of 30,000 volumes to the same institution. He died in London, England, Sept. 24, 1864.

BATES, Katharine Lee, author, was born in Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 12, 1859; daughter of the Rev. William and Cornelia Frances (Lee) Bates, granddaughter of the Rev, Joshua Bates, D.D., president of Middlebury college, Vermont. She was graduated at Wellesley in 1880; taught mathematics. classics and English at the high school, Natick, Mass., 1880-'81; Latin at Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass., 1881-'85; was an instructor and associate professor in English literature at Wellesley college 1885-'91, and professor of English there from 1891. She is the author of "Rose and Thorn" (1890); "Hermit Island" (1890); "Religious Drama" (1893); "American Literature" (1898); "Spanish Highways and By Ways" (1900), of contributions to magazines and of editions of several of Shakespeare's plays and other English classics.

BATES, Martin W., senator, was born at Salisbury. Conn. Feb. 24, 1787. He studied law, and removed to Dover, Del., where he engaged in practice. He served several terms in the state legislature; was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1850, and was elected to the U.S. senate to succeed Joseph P. Comegys, 1857. Bates served from December. 1858, to the end of Senator Clayton's term, March 4, 1859, acting on the committees of pensions and revolutionary pensions, and died at Dover, Del., Jan. 1, 1869.

BATES, Samuel Penniman, educator, was born at Mendon, Mass., Jan. 29. 1827. He was engaged in teaching at Milford, Mass., when sixteen years old, and. fitting himself for college, was graduated from Brown university in 1851 with the degree of A.M. He was occupied as a private tutor in 1851 and 1852. For five years following he acted as principal of the academy at Meadville, Pa., and as instructor of a class of teachers to whom he lectured on the theory and practice of teaching, this being an embryo normal school, and from 1857 to 1860 was superintendent of schools in Crawford county, Pa. This office he resigned to become deputy superintendent of public instruction in Pennsylvania, and in 1866 he was appointed state historian by Governor Curtin. From 1874 to 1881 he acted as superintendent of schools in Meadville, Pa., travelling in England, Scotland, and on the continent of Europe in 1877. He was president of the public Library association from 1872 to 1880, a member of the Pennsylvania historical society, and a member of Crawford county historical society. His published writings include: "Institute Lectures on Mental and Moral Culture" (1859); "Method of Teachers' Institutes" (1862); articles on "Physical Culture" (1862-'63); "Liberal Education" (1864); "History of the Colleges of Pennsylvania"; "History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers" (5 vols., 1866-'73); "Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania" (1873); "Martial Deeds of Pennsylvania" (1875); "Battle of Gettysburg" (1878); "Life of General O.B. Knowles" (1878); "History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania" (1878); "Battle of Chancellorsville" (1882); "History of Pennsylvania"; "History of Greene County, Pennsylvania"; "Digest of School Laws"; and contributions to volume twelve of the Encyclopædia Brittannica. He received the degree of LL.D. from Westminster college in 1862, and from Alleghany college in 1877.

BATTELLE, Gordon, clergyman, was born at Newport, Ohio. Nov. 14, 1814. After his graduation from Alleghany college, in 1840. he studied for the Methodist ministry, and in 1842 was given a preacher's license. The following year he was offered the position of principal of the Clarksburg, Va., academy, and accepted it, during which time he continued preaching and was made deacon and presiding elder. In 1856 he was elected a member of the general conference, and again in 1860, and at the outbreak of the civil war he became a visitor to the camps located in western