Bennington - BATCHELDER, Ira K. & James Kendrick

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 212


Biographical note on Ira K. BATCHELDER (father of James Kendrick BATCHELDER)

Ira K. BATCHELDER, son of Edmund BATCHELDER, was born in 1811 at Mount Vernon 
[Hillsborough County], New Hampshire; came to Peru [Bennington County, 
Vermont] in 1819; began to teach when eighteen years of age. Although a 
farmer, and not college-learned, he is educated; always occupies some town 
office; is a Justice of the Peace, and the only lawyer we have, which is at 
once a credit to the town as well as to him.



Biography of James Kendrick BATCHELDER (son of Ira K. BATCHELDER)

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 113

James Kendrick BATCHELDER, lawyer, Arlington [Bennington County, Vermont], 
was born 10 November 1842 in Peru [Bennington County, Vermont], son of Ira K. 
and Nancy (BARNARD) BATCHELDER. Preparatory education, Burr and Burton 
Seminary, and Middlebury College, A. B. 1864. He studied law at Albany Law 
School [Albany, New York] and with Hon. J. M. TYLER, Wilmington and 
Brattleboro [both in Windham County, Vermont]. He was admitted to the 
Vermont Bar in 1866. 

In 1867 he [James Kendrick BATCHELDER] married Alta PARSONS of Arlington 
[Bennington County, Vermont]. They have one child: Julia Pauline, wife of 
Dr. C. M. CAMPBELL of Rochester [Windsor County, Vermont]. Mr. BATCHELDER is 
a Republican; was states attorney for Bennington County 1874-1884; 
represented Arlington in the Legislature 1874, 1876, 1884, speaker of the 
House 1884; presidential elector 1880. Member of Vermont Bar Association, 
president 1908-1909; member of Bennington Club, and Arlington Young Men's 
Club.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly