Biography

11/27/1827 - 10/30/1890


BATES, Henry Snow, a Representative from Crawford County; born, November 27, 1827 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Ma.; graduated, Leicester Academy, Ma.; attended, Middlebury College; first lieutenant, Company F, 43rd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (1862-1863, Civil War); master mechanic, Navy yards, Boston; principal, Leicester Academy (1857-1862); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1884; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1886); architect and home builder; died, October 30, 1890 in Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; interred, Woodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.


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