Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Bates, Joseph August 12, 1844 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 314
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

Joseph Bates of Lower Tyrone is a son of William Bates 
and Eliza Moore Bates and was born at Merrittstown , Luzerne 
township, Fayette county, Penna, August 12, 1844.
    William Bates was born in Baltimore in 1798, and in 1814 
came with his widowed mother to Vance's Mill in North Union 
township. He was a day laborer during his life. In January, 
1864, near Upper Middletown, in felling a tree was struck by 
it and killed. His wife was a native of Fayette county and 
died in 1882, aged seventy eight years.
    Joseph Bates was bound out at the age of seven years to 
Joseph Newcomer of Georges township, and remained with him 
for fourteen years. He engaged as a day laborer until 1871 
when he began farming on the shares for Ellis Phillips of 
North Union township. In 1877 he left the farm with $1700, 
two blooded cows and one horse.
    July 3, 1880 he purchased sixty acres of his present 
farm in Lower Tyrone situated two miles north of Dawson. He 
now has seventy acres of productive land.
    On April 28, 1864, he was married to Rose Ann Moore, 
daughter of Elijah Moore. Unto their union have been born 
eight children: William H Bates, Thomas S Bates, Isaac E 
Bates, Joseph S Bates, Albert S Bates, Charles S Bates, Mary 
Ann Bates and Emma May Bates.
    Joseph Bates being bound received no schooling, but 
after his marriage, by night study acquired a limited but 
practical education. He is a republican, has served as 
assessor and school director.
    Mr Bates is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
and his success in life is a remarkable illustration of what 
energy, honesty and perseverance will accomplish.

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