Bio: Bates, John (1881)
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 223.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JOHN BATES

JOHN BATES, P. O. Chippewa Falls, has been a resident of Chippewa County twenty years. He came here from Waitsfield, Vt., in the Fall of 1861, where he was born June 10, 1830. Was married in Dorset, Vt., March 27, 1865, to Miss Chloe Ann Bartlett, of the same town, and who was born there Sept. 2, 1833. Mr. Bates's father, Ira. died at the age of eighty-one in February, 1881. They have six children—Salome M., William Jonas, Merton Bartlett, John Putnam. Harriet C. and Earle Ira. Mr. Bates has been one of the directors and secretary of the Town Fire Insurance Co., town of Eagle Point, since its organization, and is secretary of the Pioneer Grange, 222, also deputy master. He owns 192 acres of farming land on Town 29, Section 6, also forty acres of timber land.