My Family Tree

Military Service: mid 1840's, Navy, served on a man-of-war
(note: canon-armed wooden naval vessel propelled by sails)
Occupation: Hotel clerk, farmer and stock raiser, mining, partner in livery stable
"Chatfield & Batchellor" with Isaac W. Chatfield (brother of Ellen)
Politics: Member of Colorado Territorial Legislature in 1872 and 1876,
County Commissioner/Denver
Street Commissioner of Leadville, Colorado in 1881
Colorado State Superintendent of Irrigation
Affiliation: Colorado Agricultural Society, Society of Colorado Pioneers.

Mr. Batchellor is a native of Maine; he was born in the town of Bowdoin, near the Atlantic coast, where he resided only a few years before removing to Worcester County, Massachusetts, to make his home with an uncle; while he resided with his relative, he worked on a farm and attended school, a portion of the time at an academy located in Winchendon in Worcester County. At the age of seventeen, Mr. Batchellor had a desire to see other parts of the world than New England; he enlisted for three years in a man-of-war; during eighteen months of his enlistment, he was off the coast of Africa, watching parties who were engaged in the slave trade; the remainder of the time, his vessel was in the Mediterranean Sea; it was lying off Toulon at the time Louis Phillippe abdicated his throne in favor of his grandson, Feb 24, 1848, and it was near the coast of Italy when Charles Albert went out to fight the Austrians. Mr. Batchellor witnessed much of the exciting period in the history of Europe the three years he was absent from America.

After his return, he resided in several of the New England States, engaged in various occupations, before he came West; for six years, he lived in Chicago, where he filled the position of hotel clerk at the Foster House, which was destroyed in the great fire of 1871. For more than twenty years prior to 1881, Mr. Batchellor has been a resident of Colorado; a greater portion of that time, Arapahoe County has been his home, where he bought a farm four miles distant from the city of Denver, and was engaged in stock-raising in connection with his ranch. In 1872, he was a member of the Territorial Legislature, and in 1876 served his county as one if its Commissioners. In 1879, he sold out his farming and stock-raising interests and moved to Leadville, where he is engaged in the livery business; is a member of the firm of Chatfield & Batchellor, livery, feed and sale stable, 126 East Sixth street.

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