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Andrew J. Bates
Andrew Jackson Bates (June 23, 1839 – February 13, 1915)''Andrew J. Bates Dies'' The New York Times, February 14, 1915. Retrieved 2012-01-06. was a New England industrialist and founder of the Bates Shoe Company (which is now part of Wolverine World Wide). He was credited with pioneering the wholesale footwear business. Biography Andrew Jackson Bates was born in Webster, Massachusetts, on June 23, 1839. He was a descendant of Clement Bates,Samuel Atkins Eliot (EdBiographical History of Massachusetts (Openlibrary.org) Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1918, pp 30-31. Ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A J Bates
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
