18 September 1915
Anne Bates Hersman (ne Anne Woodson Bates), the daughter of Richard Bates (St. Louis,
Missouri, 12 December 1835 25 September 1879, St. Louis, Missouri) and Ellen Wilson Woodson
(St. Charles County, Missouri, 24 November 1842 26 August 1933, St. Louis, Missouri) was born,
on 30 November 1866, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the granddaughter of Edward Bates
(Belmont plantation, Goochland County, Virginia, 4 September 1793 25 March 1869, St. Louis,
Missouri) who had served as attorney-general in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln. After earning her
baccalaureate degree at Missouri State University in 1887, she taught Latin, also at Missouri State
University, in the academic year 1888-89. On 6 September 1894, she married Charles Finley
Hersman, M. D. who was born, in Fulton, Missouri, on 16 May 1864 and who, in St. Louis, was the
clinical professor of medicine and the demonstrator of anatomy at the Missouri Medical College of
St. Louis.
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The marriage was not long. Charles Finley Hersman, as the victim of nephritis, died in
St. Louis on 11 October 1895. Before the end of that same year, Anne Bates Hersman, as a widow,
enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Chicago where she would become the student of
Paul Shorey (Davenport, Iowa, 3 August 1857 24 April 1934, Chicago, Illinois); and, in the
academic year 1897-98, she was listed at the University of Chicago as a fellow in Greek. In 1898-99,
she was furnishing instruction, in Illinois, at Rockford College. In 1900, she began teaching Latin,
in Chicago, at Hyde Park High School. During the academic year 1901-02, she was a student in
residence, in Athens, at the American School of Classical Studies. While continuing to teach at
Hyde Park High School, Anne Bates Hersman, on the basis of her Studies in Greek Allegorical
Interpretation, was awarded her doctorate at the University of Chicago on 19 March 1907. In 1917,
she withdrew from Hyde Park High School and from Chicago; and she returned to St. Louis where
she supported herself by the practice of law and, while doing so, she published articles in the St.
Louis Law Review [Washington University] and in the American Law Review [St. Louis]. Anne
Bates Hersman, by her own hand, perished at home in St. Louis on 6 May 1948.
1. Charles Finley Hersman, an alumnus of Westminster College (1884) in Fulton, Missouri, was the
son of Charles Campbell Hersman (near Lexington, Kentucky, 16 June 1838 7 June 1924,
Richmond, Virginia), the Henry Young Professor of Biblical Literature and New Testament
Interpretation at Union Theological Seminary (Richmond, Virginia), and Abigail Abbie
Machette (St. Charles, Missouri, 30 December 1839 6 September 1921, Richmond, Virginia). As
the student of William Augustus Hardaway (Mobile, Alabama, 8 January 1850 3 February 1923,
St. Louis, Missouri), he earned his doctorate in medicine, at the Missouri Medical College of St.
Louis, in 1888. A specialist in cancers of the skin, his most notable publication was
Lymphangioma in the third volume, pages 508 516, of what Prince Albert Morrow (Mount
Vernon, Kentucky, 19 December 1846 17 March 1913, New York, New York) edited and
published as A System of Genito-Urinary Diseases, Syphilology, and Dermatology (D. Appleton: New
York, 1893-94), 3 vols. His marriage to Anne Woodson Bates was announced in The Medical
Standard 16.4 (October 1894), p. 126.
2. Anna Bates Hersman, Right of Public Service Corporations to Serve Themselves, St. Louis Law
Review 4 (1919), pp. 147 150; Anne Bates Hersman, Intervention in Federal Courts, The
American Law Review 61 (1927), pp. 1 38 and 161 193.