Barton Bates
American judge
About Barton Bates
Lived 1824 – 1892 (aged 68). Barton Bates was an American.
Joshua Barton Bates (February 29, 1824 – December 27, 1892) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1862 to 1865.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Bates was the oldest of seventeen children born to Edward Bates and Julia Davenport Coalter (of whom only four lived to adulthood). As a young man, Bates "dropped the Joshua from his name and was thenceforth known as Barton Bates".
Bates thereafter served as a railroad president, and spent considerable time administering the will of his uncle, John Coalter, which provided for the upkeep of relatives in South Carolina rendered destitute by the war. This administration continued until the estate was exhausted in 1879. he died in Washington DC in 1892
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Barton Bates was born on 29 February 1824.
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Barton Bates died on 27 December 1892.
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