When John Loring Bates was born on 21 March 1874, in Maine, United States, his father, Albert H. Bates, was 40 and his mother, Martha M. Taber, was 35. He married Gertrude E McLaughlin on 20 April 1895, in Dover, Piscataquis, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Hersey, Aroostook, Maine, United States in 1920 and Houlton, Aroostook, Maine, United States in 1940. He died on 24 April 1957, at the age of 83, and was buried in Houlton, Aroostook, Maine, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: variant of Bate with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also common in Ireland.
Americanized form of German Betz . See also Betts .
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