Samuel Penniman Bates
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Samuel Penniman Bates (1827-1902) was an American educator, born in Mendon, Massachusetts.
He graduated at Brown University in 1851. In 1860 he was made deputy State superintendent of schools and in 1866, he was made historian of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. His numerous lectures and reports did much to further the cause of education.
His educational works include Lectures on Moral and mental Culture (1860), Liberal Education (1865), Method of Teachers' Institutes (1862), and History of Colleges in Pennsylvania.
He published:
- Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania (1873)
- Life of Gen. O. B. Knowles (1878)
- Battle of Gettysburg (1878)
- Battle of Chancellorsville (1882)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
