BIO: John C. BATES, Beaver County, PA
    
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    BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
    of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
    Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, p. 55.
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    JOHN C. BATES, a gentleman who has, for years, been one of the most
  enterprising citizens of Rochester, Beaver county, Pa., has for a long period
  been identified with the Rochester Tumbler Works. He is a son of William and
  Mary Jane (Thompson) Bates, and was born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1848.
    
    William Bates, the father of John C., was also born at Steubenville, Ohio,
  and through-out his entire life was engaged as a brick contractor. He died in
  his native town at the age of sixty-five years. His union with Mary Jane
  Thompson, who was born at West Brownsville, and is now living at the advanced
  age of seventy-four years, resulted in the birth of three children: John C.,
  whose name heads these lines; William, and George.
    
    John C. Bates, the subject hereof, learned the trade of glass making when a
  boy, at Steubenville, and from there he went to Wheeling, West Virginia, where
  he continued at that occupation until he removed to Pittsburg. He plied his
  trade in the latter city until 1877, when he came to Rochester, which has
  since been his home. He assisted in the Rochester Tumbler Works, and still
  efficiently serves in that capacity. He is a man of excellent judgment, and
  has so conducted his affairs that he is rated among the prosperous citizens
  of the community. He bought a vacant lot on Penn street, known as the Lloyd
  property, and upon this he erected a handsome, modern house. In this he
  resided for years, but he now makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. S. M.
  Kane, whose residence is on the opposite side of the same street.
    
    John C. Bates was united in marriage with Ida Cotton, of Pittsburg, and
  four children blessed their home, namely: Virginia, the widow of Samuel M.
  Kane, a record of whose life follows this paragraph; Bertha, deceased; John
  Emmett, and Georgella. Mr. Bates is liberal in his religious views. Socially,
  he is a member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge and Encampment, and the A. O. of M.