Bates, Kate Stevens.

Kate Stevens Bates lived from 1852 to 1941. She grew up in Newport, Rhode Island, and Dorchester, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, first governor of the Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857. She was married to Edward Wingard Bingham in 1886. At various times throughout their marriage, they lived in Portland, OR and on the East Coast. While they were in Portland, she was prominent socially and an amateur writer for newspapers and magazines. Mr. Bingham passed away in 1904. In 1913 she married James H. S. Bates. After her second marriage, Mrs. Bates lived for a time in Massachusetts and after 1918 at Cloverfield Farms, near Olympia, WA. She was very active in the Washington State Historical Society and other historical groups. In her later years, she and her husband moved from the Cloverfield Farms into Olympia, WA. She passed away in 1941.