CLASS OF 1872

Albert Stillman Batchellor died at his home in Littleton, N. H., June 15, after an immediate illness of several weeks and a long affliction of blindness. He was the son of Stillman and Mary Jane (Smith) Batchellor, and was born in Bethlehem, N. H., April 22, 1850. His preparation for college was obtained at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton. He became a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, and was its primarius in 1881 and 1897. The day after graduation he began the study of law in the office of Harry (D. C. '43) and George A. Bingham of Littleton, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. For a year he was associated with George A. Bingham, who withdrew from the old firm, and on Mr. Bingham's elevation to the bench he practiced alone for a time, finally entering into partnership wit i Charles W. Bolles, under the firm name of Batchellor and Bolles. In 1879 the firm of Bingham, Mitchell, and Batchellor was established, the senior members being Harry Bingham and John M. Mitchell. After the death of Mr. Bingham in 1900, the firm became Batchellor and Mitchell, John Mitchell having been succeeded by William H. Mitchell. Mr. retired from practice two years ago, having an unexcelled reputation in the state as an advocate. He had a sound grasp of legal principles, a special gift' for the writing of briefs, and a faculty for hard and resourceful work, combined with a mind which was a storehouse of legal lore, and a power of successful argument in the court room.

Mr. Batchellor was eminent also in historical research. In 1890 he was appointed by Governor Goodell editor of the New Hampshire State Papers. The volumes which he has edited embrace documents relating to legislation, the controversy between New Hampshire and Massachusetts over the province line, executive records, town charters, grants by Masonian proprietors, Wentworth's grants in Vermont, a documentary history of Masonian patent, and probate records. The second volume of New Hampshire Province Laws was in the hands of the publishers at the time of his death. Other publications with which he was identified were the Littleton Centennial, the Proceedings of the New Hampshire Historical Society, the New Hampshire Revised Record of Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion, and the History of the Town of Littleton. It was largely his achievements in historical work that won him the degree of Doctor of Letters from Dartmouth in 1910.

Mr. Batchellor had held many positions of trust and honor, among them the following: superintending school committee for the town of Littleton, member of the board of education, justice of the peace, justice of the municipal court, assistant clerk of the state Senate in 1875, member of the House of Representatives in 1877, 1879, and later solicitor for Grafton county in 1881-83, member of the Executive Council in 1887-9, trustee of the state library from 1889 to 1899, president of the New Hampshire Bar Association, of the Alumni Association of New Hampshire Conference Seminary, and of the Sons of the Revolution of New Hampshire. In politics he was a Democrat until 1896, and had since acted with the Republican party. He was a Mason of the 32d degree.

August 5, 1880, he was married to Harriet Anna Copeland of Weaver, Minn., who died in the summer of 1910. Three children survive them: Stillman (D. C. '05), who is engaged in mining engineering in Mexica; Bertha, who lives in Littleton; and Fred C. (D. C. '10), now of Worcester, Mass.

Secretary, Prof. Albert E. Frost, Winthrop St., Pittsburgh, Pa.