The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bates, Arlo

​BATES, Arlo, author, was born at East Machias, Maine. Dec. 16, 1850. He was educated at the common schools of his native town, and was graduated from Bowdoin college in 1876. He then went to Boston, Mass., and began work as a journalist. From 1878 to 1880 he was editor of the Broadside, and from 1880 to 1893 of the Boston Sunday Courier, at the same time being Boston correspondent of the Book Buyer, the Providence Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. In 1893 he was elected professor of English in the Massachusetts institute of technology. His published works include: "Patty's Perversities" (1881); "The Pagans" (1884); "A Wheel of Fire" (1885); "Berries of the Brier" (1886); "Sonnets in Shadow" (1887); "Lad's Love" (1887); "The Philistines" (1889); Albrecht" (1890); "The Poet and His Self" (1891); "A Book o' Nine Tales" (1891); "Told in the Gate" (1892); "In the Bundle of Time" (1893); "The Torch Bearers" (1894); "Under the Beach Tree" (1899); "Love in a Cloud" (1900). He also edited "Old Salem" (1886), a book left unfinished by his wife.

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