Background
He was born on July 3, 1836 in Southbury, Connecticut, the son of George and Mary (Axford) Batchelor.
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He was born on July 3, 1836 in Southbury, Connecticut, the son of George and Mary (Axford) Batchelor.
With this purpose in mind he attended the theological school at Meadville, graduating in 1863.
He was assistant superintendent of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1864-65. He received the degree of A. B. at Harvard in 1866 and that of A. M. in 1870. Meanwhile he became pastor of the Barton Square Church in Salem, Massachussets, where he had a happy and fruitful ministry. In 1882 he was called to the pastorate of Unity Church, Chicago, and in 1889 he became minister of the First Unitarian Church in Lowell, Massachussets.
Meanwhile he had served as the executive secretary of the National Conference of the Unitarian Churches with such efficiency that in 1893 he was chosen secretary of the American Unitarian Association, the missionary organization of his denomination. He resigned this office in January 1898 to become editor of the Christian Register and held that position until his retirement July 3, 1911. He was a preacher of more than average ability and the author of Social Equilibrium (1887), which had a considerable circulation.
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Batchelor was a man of slender frame and slight bodily power but distinguished for sound judgment, thorough thinking, and good administrative capacity.
On September 18, 1866, he was married to Priscilla Stearns of Cambridge, Massachussets.