Joshua Bates was born on a farm in Cohasset, Massachusetts in 1776 and graduated from Harvard College in 1797. He later became a minister, a teacher at Phillips Andover academy, and, from 1818 to 1839, president of Middlebury College. During his tenure, Bates helped to stabilize the struggling institution and oversaw the construction of the Old Chapel, an icon of the college that is on the National Register of Historic Places. Wikipedia
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