. when he wasabout five years old, his primary education was in the public schools of thatcity. He was there engaged in mechanical employment until 1S36, when, havingprepared himself as best he could—a poor boy—in the requisite preliminary studies,he entered Amherst College of his native State, in the fall of 1836. He was gradu-ated with the degree of A. B. in 1840 (and, some two or three years subsequently. 200 BATCHELDER GENEALOGY. received that of A. If.). Intending to engage as a teacher in the extreme South—school year there co
. when he wasabout five years old, his primary education was in the public schools of thatcity. He was there engaged in mechanical employment until 1S36, when, havingprepared himself as best he could—a poor boy—in the requisite preliminary studies,he entered Amherst College of his native State, in the fall of 1836. He was gradu-ated with the degree of A. B. in 1840 (and, some two or three years subsequently. 200 BATCHELDER GENEALOGY. received that of A. If.). Intending to engage as a teacher in the extreme South—school year there commencing in January—immediately upon his graduation he tookcharge, as principal, of the Townshend Female Academy at Townshend, Vermont,for the balance of the year, when he went to Livingston, Sumpter County, Alabama,where he established an English and Classical School, in wnich he was engageduntil the spring of i>44. when, his health failing, he left, with his wife—RebeccaDarington Bradford, whom he had married in Livingston, and with two I \ • LOCKI BATCI KR. which she had inherited, fur Cincinnati, Ohio, where they \v< iv given their organized a high school for colored children in that city. He there united withOr. Wm. 11 Brisbane, formerly of South Carolina, who had emancipated some 30slaves, in the weekly issue of a print entitled the Christian Politician, and wrotean Address to Southern Baptists ti behalf of an Anti-Slavery Convention inCincinnati, which was published in said periodical He was licensed to preach BATCHELDER GENEALOGY. 201 by the Amherst Baptist Church about this time, and supplied, for a season, an Anti-Slavery Baptist Church in Cincinnati with written sermons, and subsequently thenoccupied pulpits in Ohio, where he sojourned, in the vicinity of Cin., particularly inLa Crosse, Wis., and Chicago, as occasion called. But, deeming he was betteradapted to the communication of his thoughts and sentiments through thepress, th
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