. Sprague's history of Grand Traverse and Leelanaw counties, Michigan : embracing a concise review of their early settlement, industrial development and present conditions, together with interesting reminiscences. t arecombined in the residents of the section ofcountry of which this volume treats. Theenthusiastic enterprise which overleaps allobstacles and makes possible almost any un-dertaking in the comparatively new and vig-orous western states is here tempered bythe stable and more careful policy that wehave borrowed from our eastern neighbors,and the combination is one of peculiar forceam
. Sprague's history of Grand Traverse and Leelanaw counties, Michigan : embracing a concise review of their early settlement, industrial development and present conditions, together with interesting reminiscences. t arecombined in the residents of the section ofcountry of which this volume treats. Theenthusiastic enterprise which overleaps allobstacles and makes possible almost any un-dertaking in the comparatively new and vig-orous western states is here tempered bythe stable and more careful policy that wehave borrowed from our eastern neighbors,and the combination is one of peculiar forceami power. It has been the means of plac-ing this section of the country on a par withthe older east, at the same time producinga reliability and certainty in business affairswhich is frequently lacking in the happy combination of characteristicsis possessed by the subject of this briefsketch, Thomas Tomlinson Bates, of Trav-erse City. Michigan, who was born Decem-ber 13, 1841, at Keeseville, Essex York. His father was Rev. MerrittBates and his mother Eliza A. Tomlinson,both, being of English ancestry. The fa-ther was a Methodist Episcopal clergyman,and an active and uncompromising anti-. THOMAS T. BATES GRAND TRAVERSE AXD LEELANAW COUNTIES. 493 slavery man through all the thirty-five yearspreceding the Civil war. A man of strongconviction and great ability, he occupied aprominent place in his church, and lived tosee the triumph of the cause to which he hadgiven the best years of his life. His moth-er was of the old New York family of Tom-linsons, prominent in Xew York city inRevolutionary times and the years immedi-ately following. Thomas T. Bates was educated in thepublic schools. At sixteen he began lifefor himself, clerking at one dollar a weekand boarding himself. A year later he wasgeneral helper in a bank at Glens Falls, NewYork. At eighteen he occupied an impor-tant position in a banking- house in Memphis,^Tennessee, but came north at the outbreakof t
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