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See also:BATES, See also:JOSHUA (1788-1864) , See also:American financier, was See also:born
in See also:Weymouth, See also:Massachusetts, on the loth of See also:October 1788, of an old Massachusetts See also:family prominent in colonial affairs. After several winters' schooling in his native See also:town, he entered the counting-See also:house of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray & Son in See also:Boston. In 1809 he began business on his own See also:account, but failed during the See also:War of 1812 and again became associated with the Grays, then the largest shipowners in See also:America, by whom a few years later he was sent to See also:London in See also:charge of their See also:European business. There he came into relations with the Barings, and in 1826 formed a See also:partnership with See also:John, a son of See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Baring. Two years later both partners were admitted to the See also:firm of Baring See also:Brothers & See also:Company, of which Bates eventually became See also:senior partner, occupying in consequence an influential position in the See also:British See also:financial See also:world. In 1853-1854 he acted with rare impartiality and See also:justice as See also:umpire of the See also:international See also:commission appointed to See also:settle claims growing out of the War of 1812. In 1852-1855 he contributed $1oo,000 in books and in See also:cash for, a public library in Boston, the See also:money to be invested and the See also:annual income to be applied to the See also:purchase of books. Upon his See also:death the " upper See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall," or See also:main reference-See also:room (opened in 1861) in the See also:building erected in 1858 by the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the library trustees, was named Bates Hall; and upon the opening of the new building in 1895 this name was transferred to its See also:principal See also:reading-room, one of the finest library halls in the world. During the See also:Civil War Bates's sympathies were strongly with the See also:Union, and besides aiding the See also:United States See also:government fiscal agents in various ways, he used his See also:influence to prevent the raising of loans for the Confederacy. He died in London on the 24th of See also:September
1864.
See Memorial of Joshua Bates (Boston, 1865).
End of Article: BATES, JOSHUA (1788-1864)
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