BATH, a village of New York, U.S.A., 4omc. N.W. of Elmira and 6m. S. of Lake Keuka, at an altitude of 1,1o3ft.; on the Cohocton river and the Lackawanna and the Erie railways. It is the county seat of Steuben county. Population 1930 was 4,015 U.S. census. Its industrial plants make knitted underwear, bath ing-suits and sweaters; sash, doors and ladders; harness and saddles; milking machines and brooms. There is a State fish hatchery. Bath is the seat of the Davenport home for orphan girls and of a State camp for veterans, formerly the State soldiers' and sailors' home, which at one time housed 3,00o veterans of the Civil War. The village, founded in 5793 by Capt. Charles Williamson and named after the English watering-place, was in corporated in 1816, and again in 1836.