Biographical Sketch of James P. Bates, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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James P. Bates is a son of P. Quinton and Mary (Waymon) Bates, natives
respectively, of Kentucky and Pennsylvania.  Both parents removed to
Phelps County, MO., with their parents when young, and were there rear-
ed to maturity and married, coming shortly after to Texas County, but
only resided here a short time, when they returned to Phelps County,
where the mother died in the full bloom of womanhood.  In 1849 Mr.
Bates went to the Black Hills to dig gold, and there died.  He was a
Democrat, and a successful and enterprising business man.  James P.
Bates is the oldest of three surviving members of a family of five
children, and was born in Texas County, MO., February 28, 1837, and
was reared to the saw-mill business, receiving his education in the
old subscription schools of early days.  When about fifteen years of
age he began the battle of life for himself, and was first engaged in
driving oxen for $10 per month, and was then occupied in rafting, mak-
ing twenty-five trips down the rivers to St. Louis.  Since 1863 he has
been engaged in operating a saw-mill, and in connection with this man-
ages his large farm of 640 acres, the most of which is exceptionally
good land.  He has always been a Democrat in politics, and is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, and is considered one of the successful
business men of the county, having made all his property by his own
exertions.  In 1860 he was married to Elizabeth Harper, nee Reardon,
a native of Ireland, born June 28, 1839.  She was reared in London,
England, but came to America when about sixteen years of age, and is 
now the mother of one child, Mary F.

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