Katharine Lee Bates, is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". Bates was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The daughter of a Congregational pastor, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1880 and for many years was a professor of English literature at Wellesley. Wikipedia
Her mother, a graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary, moved the family to Wellesley where Bates graduated in 1880 from then-new Wellesley College, thanks to help from her two older brothers. harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/bates.php
Mrs. Claus created by Katherine Lee Bates, Sunshine and other Verses for Children, 1890 (ref?), violating sainthood celibacy restrictions. www.bsu.edu/web/01bkswartz/xmaspub.html
In addition to simplifying the phrasing and text, Bates made one change in the wording of the third stanza adding beautiful. www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_home_page.asp?exhib...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Katharine Lee Bates. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Lee_Bates
...Malone), 1850-1899 Bates, E. Katharine Bates, Katherine Lee, 1859-1929 Batten, John Dickson, 1860-1932 Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 Van Dyne, Edith Baum, Paull Franklin Bayliss, ... www.gutenberg.org/author/K
Katharine Lee Bates was born in a house on Falmouth's Main Street on August 12th, 1859. Her father was the pastor of the Congregational Church right around the corner. This house is impeccably maintained by The Falmouth Historical Society . Miss Bates www.fuzzylu.com/falmouth/bates/
