Bates, Katherine Lee (fem) 12.aug.1859-28.mar.1929 USA Massachusetts, Falmouth - Wellesley (bur Falmouth)
poet, writer, teacher, no composer, 1880 BA in English literature from Wellesley College Needham Massachusetts, 1889-1924 professor of English literature at Wellesley College, 1927 professor emeritus of Wellesley College ; daughter of clergyman William Bates (Massachusetts, Dedham 18.jan.1816-10.sep.1859 Falmouth) and Cornelia Frances Lee (Massachusetts dec.1826-21.jan.1908 Falmouth) ; she never married

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[] America the beautiful. Anthem
words Katherine Lee Bates 1893 rev1913
sung to music of the hymn Materna (1882) by Samuel Augustus Ward (1847-1903)

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