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,Q- sf-f 4-N' REX Burbank Vheney was the founder and first president of Bates College. An independent and courageous Baptist minister, President Vheney sacrificed the greater part of his life for his railway to the moon, the building of a sehool which almost everyone said would fail. l'II li'nrlmnL' fllll'Il1'jj flS'1f1 lgfrj I lflwflrzrr Krmlrllnu QIXI5--1374! Iivnjumiu Ellwrlrfl liuivx l!SOJ,-1878?
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Ebenezer Knowlton, speaker of the state legislature and later a Ineinher of f'ongress, gave up his political Career to hattle for the aeceptanee of the charter, which he himself wrote, for the Maine State Seminary. The seminary was founded in 1857 and was made a College in 1864-. It was named then after Benjamin Eclwarfl Bates, a Boston merchant, whose gifts totaling PlSQ00,000 helped the struggling George Volhy Phase '68 lmeeanle the seeonml presirlent of the eollege in 1894. lllhile he was in othee, the nninlxer ol lmuilflings, faculty Illl'Illll0I'H, Stl11lC'Il'fS,2LIlKl the enrlowlnents were lllC'I'l'2lSl'4l tln'eel'olcl. .lonathon Y. Stanton, olrl l'nele Johnny, is probably the lmest known ol' the olrl pro- fessors. A great lover of llZllllI'4', his lmirml Collection now in the l'a1'neg1ie Seienee Hall is one of the hest in New l'lIl,2Il2lIlfl. institution through those early days. George flUH7j'Cll7t15C K1844-IQIQ Jmmtlzuzl Y, 51111111111 tl-5'j4-IQIXQ
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