Bates family papers, 1830-1970.

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Bates family papers, 1830-1970.

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Personal, business, and professional papers, of several generations of Bates family members, reflecting many aspects in the study of 19th and 20th century history. Also includes correspondence and other papers (1870s-1895), diaries, scrapbooks, school notes, essays, travel notes (1881-1893), membership certificates relating to clubs at Harvard, and other papers of Charles T.R. Bates; papers of Daniel M. Bates, Jr., including correspondence (1879-1953), diaries (53 v., 1894-1904, 1909-1952), financial documents, personal, professional, and financial files (1890s-1950s), including New Castle restoration, memorabilia, and files on Selborne, his estate north of Wilmington, and foreign travel. Correspondence (1900-1968), diaries (64 v., 1903-1968), personal and household papers, materials from preparation of Portraits in Delaware (National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Delaware, 1951), and other papers, of Bertha Corson (Day) Bates; and papers of Frances Corson (Bates) Muir and Peter Muir reflecting their stay in India (1941-1943), photographs from India, West Indies, Paris, and Mexico, and personal documents; and papers from the Day and Russell families.

102 linear ft.

Historical Society of Delaware

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

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Bates, Sarah L. Russell, -1944

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Russell family.

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Day family.

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Bates, Martin W. (Martin Waltham), 1786-1869

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Bates, Elizabeth Ballister Russell, -1925

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Bates, Bertha Corson Day, 1875-1968

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Born in Philadelphia, Pa.; illustrator and artist; student of Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., and summer classes at Chadds Ford, Del.; res. of Wilmington, Del. From the description of Bertha Corson Day Bates collection, 1864-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70971503 ...

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

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Daniel Bates came to Australia in 1912. His fiancee followed and they were married in 1914. Daniel owned a butcher shop in Ipswich, until his untimely death in 1917, when he cut his hand in the butcher shop. He was survived by his wife, Alice Kate Giles and three children, Henry, Frederick George and Daniel Giles. From the description of OM91-04 Daniel Bates Diary, 1912. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 755719927 Lawyer, of Wilmington, Del.; U.S. district attorney ...

Bates, Charles Theodore Russell, 1871-1895

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Bates family.

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Lawyers, diplomats, journalists, industrialists, and artists, of Delaware. Family members include Martin W. Bates (1786-1869), physician, merchant, and lawyer, of Dover, Del., who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1857; his adopted son Daniel Moore Bates (1821-1879, originally the son of Rev. Jacob and Mary Jane Moore, and adopted by Bates in 1829 after the death of his parents), a lawyer, of Wilmington, who served as U.S. district attorney for Delaware (1852-1861) and chancellor of Delaware (18...

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