James K. Bates

For other people named James Bates, seeJames Bates (disambiguation).

James K. Bates(June 24, 1806, inWindham County, Connecticut– June 30, 1872, inWatertown,Jefferson County, New York) was an American physician and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of James Bates and Linda (Fairbanks) Bates (b. 1781). He married Serena L. Massey and they had three children.

He was anInspector of State Prisonsfrom 1861 to 1866, elected in1860on theRepublicanticket, and in1863on the Union ticket.

Sources

• The New York Civil Listcompiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 411 and 536)
• [1]Bates genealogy, at Family Origins [givesThompson, Connecticutas birthplace]
• Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America, 1633-1897by Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks (Printed for the author by the American Print. and Engraving Co., 1897)
• The Growth of a Century: As Illustrated in the History of Jefferson County, New York, from 1793 to 1894by John A Haddock & Eli Thayer (Weed-Parsons Printing Company, 1894) [givesKillingly, Connecticutas birthplace]
• Death noticeof his daughter Frances J. Bates, aged 20, in NYT on December 25, 1856