Barton County, Missouri Biographies - John Bates

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade  and  Barton Counties, Missouri, 
1889-published by Goodspeed; Pg. 856--Barton County Biography Section

     John Bates, secretary of the Lamar Abstract and Trust Company, was born
in Macoupin County, Ill., on September, 18, 1842, and is the youngest of two
children born to James W. and Martha (Will) Bates, who were Tennesseeans by 
birth, born in 1812 and 1818, respectively.  Both the paternal and maternal 
great-grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War, and the former was born
in Ireland, and came to America in 1877, settling in South Carolina.  The 
grandfathers on both sides served under Jackson in the War of 1812, and 
were early settlers of Tennessee.  James W. Bates moved to Greene County, 
Ill., with his parents, in 1834, and the mother, with her parents, in 1829.
They married and spent their lives in that State, the father following 
arming and school teaching, and died ther in 1845.  He was an old-time 
Democrat.  His widow still resides in that State.  John Bates, the subject 
of this sketch, only received a few months' schooling, and, when old enough,
was put to the plow.  He assisted on the home farm until nearly thirty years
of age, but, from the time he was nineteen years of age until he was 
twenty-nine, he was engaged in teaching school during the winter months.  
In November, 1869, he was married to Edna J. Johnson, who was born in 
Illinois, and in 1872 moved to Barton County, Mo., and improved a farm, 
which he sold for fifty dollars an acre, it being the first one in the 
county to bring that price.  From 1881 to about 1888 he ran a livery stable
in Lamar, and now owns 290 acres of land in the county.  He is a member of 
the Union Labor party, and from 1878 to 1882 held the office of presiding 
judge of the county court.  He is a Royal Arch Mason, and he and his wife 
are members of the Baptist Church.

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