The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bates, David Stanhope

​BATES, David Stanhope, civil engineer, was born near Morristown, N.J., June 10, 1777, son of David Bates, an officer in the Revolutionary army. He made a special study of mathematics, became a surveyor in Constantia, N.Y., in 1810; and subsequently superintendent of the iron works at Rotterdam. He studied law, was judge of the court of common pleas in Oneida county and assistant engineer and division engineer on the Erie canal, 1817-24. He was chief engineer of the Louisville and Portland canal company, 1825-'28: of the system of canals in Ohio, 1825-'29; of the survey of the Chenango canal from Utica to Binghamton, N.Y., in 1829, and of the canal along the Genesee river from Rochester to Olean in 1830. He also surveyed and built the Auburn and Rochester railroad in 1831; the railroad from Rochester to Carthage, and made the survey of the Erie and Kalamazoo railroad. He was engineer of the Niagara river hydraulic company. He died at Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 28, 1839.

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