ASHER B. BATES was born at LeRoy, Genesee County. New York on May 2, 1810. He came here as early as 1831. In 1833 he was serving as a Justice of the Peace, and in 1835 was City Attorney. In 1838 on the resignation of Augustus S. Porter he was elected Mayor of the city. In the summer of 1848 he went to the Sandwich Islands, where he became Attorney-General, and remained until 1863 or 1864. when he moved to San Francisco, whore he died on June 1, 1873. He was married to Lucille Deals in Canandaigua, New York, on October 24, 1832. She died at Detroit in 1839 leaving one son, Dudley C. Bates, now a resident of San Francisco. He was married to Elizabeth G. Judd, of Troy. Oakland County Michigan, on December 6, 1843. She was living in 1887. Source: History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan By Silas Farmer 1890