Josephine White Bates

American novelist

Lindon Wallace Bates

(m. 1881)

ChildrenLindon Bates, Jr.

Josephine White Bates (8 July 1862 – 20 October 1934) was a Canadian-American author who preferred to use her married name Mrs. E. Lindon Bates.^[2] She was the author of several works including A Blind Lead (1886), Bunch-Grass Stories (1892), and Mercury Poisoning in the Industries of New York City and Vicinity (1912).

Early years and education

Josephine White was born 8 July 1857 at Portage-du-Fort, Canada East^[3] near Ottawa, Canada West, the daughter of George E. and Mary White. She was a student in Lake Forest, Illinois, and at the Lake Forest College, 1876–80.^[4]

Career

She married Lindon Wallace Bates (born 1858), a hydraulic engineer, of New York City, on April 6, 1881,^[4] becoming a U.S. citizen by marriage.^[3] The couple lived in Portland, Oregon for a number of years. She was active in the Preparedness Movement; in 1916, she published a pamphlet "Keep America Safe".^[5] In 1908, she became a member of the Lyceum Club, having been sponsored by Lou Henry Hoover. She was also a member of Colony (New York); as well as Fortnightly, and Friday (Chicago).^[4] Bates visited with Herbert Hoover and his wife at their Red House in London for several weeks in 1911.^[6]

Personal life

Bates' summer home was at Lebanon Park, in Mount Lebanon, New York, while the rest of the year, her address was 615 Fifth Avenue, in New York City.^[4] Her son Lindon Bates, Jr. also became an engineer;^[5] he later perished in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.^[7]

Bates died in Yorktown, New York.^[1]

Selected works

A Blind Lead: The Story of a Mine (1888)
A Nameless Wrestler (1889)
Armaïs and others (1892)
Bunch-grass Stories (1895)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c New York, Death Index, 1852-1956
^ Wadsworth & Wiegand 2012, p. 105.
^ ^a ^b "FamilySearch: Oauth2 Request Error". ident.familysearch.org. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Leonard & Marquis 1920, p. 194.
^ ^a ^b Baym 2012, p. 268.
^ Allen 2000, p. 54.
^ "Lindon Bates, Jr. "Hero Of The Lusitania" Collection Comes To The Hoover Archives". The Hoover Institution.

Bibliography

Allen, Anne Beiser (2000). An Independent Woman: The Life of Lou Henry Hoover. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-313-31466-7.
Baym, Nina (17 August 2012). Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07884-2.
Wadsworth, Sarah; Wiegand, Wayne A. (2012). Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition. Univ of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-928-7.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1920). Who's who in America (Public domain ed.). Marquis Who's Who.