Windsor

BATCHELDER, Wallace

Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical 
Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other 
States. Dodge. Burlington: Ullery, 1912, pp 113-114

Wallace BATCHELDER, lawyer, Bethel [Windsor County, Vermont]. Born Andover 
[Windsor County, Vermont], 20 Jun 1875; son of Edmund Abel and Lizzie Emma 
(NUTTING) BATCHELDER. Educated in the public schools and Chester High School 
and Academy. He studied law in the office of Waterman & Martin, Brattleboro, 
and in the office of Hunton & Stickney, Bethel; admitted to the Vermont Bar 
17 May 1904; has since been engaged in the practice of law at Bethel; 
appointed Vermont member of national commission on uniform state laws 1911.

Mr. BATCHELDER was a trooper in Troop K, First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry 
(ROOSEVELT's Rough Riders), in war with Spain in 1898, the only man from 
Vermont in the Rough Riders; commissioned First Lieutenant by President 
McKinley, 17 August 1899; served in Philippine Islands; took part in the 
fighting on the "south line" under General SCHWAN, serving in "the flying 
column;" First Lieutenant Company G, Forty-sixth U. S. Infantry; captain 
Company B, and afterward of Company C, same regiment; fought in the battles 
of Binan, Lemeri, Silang, the skirmish at Calacca, the engagements at Indang, 
Taal, and all the other actions in which his battalion was engaged. His 
company led the charge at Taal, 19 January 1900, he and his men being the 
first to cross the bridge in the face of rifle and artillery fire, capturing 
the battery in action and making prisoners of the gunners. In the official 
report of this charge Major-General Elwell S. OTIS, commanding the army in 
the Philippines, said, "There may be as good soldiers in the U. S. Army, but 
there are none better." Was honorably discharged in San Francisco, 
California, 31 May 1901, when his regiment was mustered out of service.

In 1901 he [Wallace BATCHELDER] married Maude Leone THOMPSON of Cavendish 
[Windsor County, Vermont]; they had three children, John Thompson, Dorothy 
(deceased), both born in Brattleboro [Windham County, Vermont], and Gordon, 
born in Bethel [Windsor County, Vermont]. Mr. BATCHELDER is a member Christ 
Episcopal Church, Bethel; White River Lodge, No. 90, Free & Accepted Masons, 
Bethel; Vermont Bar Association; Vermont Fish and Game League; Maryland Peace 
Society; American Peace Society; Windsor County Committee, Y. M. C. A. 
(incorporated), of which he was one of the founders and charter members; 
American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes; 
Roosevelt's Rough Riders' Association; American Bar Association.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly