Background
Battle, Kemp Davis was born on October 9, 1888 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Hall and Elizabeth (Mershon) Battle.
Battle, Kemp Davis was born on October 9, 1888 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States. Son of Thomas Hall and Elizabeth (Mershon) Battle.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity North Carolina, 1909, Doctor of Laws, 1960. Bachelor of Laws, University Denver, 1914.
Admitted to North Carolina bar, 1910, practiced in Rocky Mount. Member firm Battle, Winslow, Merrell, Scott & Wiley, from 1911. Judge municipal court, Rocky Mount, 1918-1920.
Vice president, director Rocky Mount Mills.
Director Carolina Telephone & Telephone Company President North Carolina Tuberculosis Association, 1949.
Delegate triennial consultant Episcopal Church, member executive council, chancellor Diocese North Carolina, 1954-1957. Board of directors, secretary National Tuberculosis Association, 1952-1955.
Trustee Rocky Mount public schools, 1923-1944, Braswell Memorial Library, Rocky Mount, 1925-1940, U. North Carolina, 1927-1959, Park View Hospital, Rocky Mount, from 1927.
Member American, North Carolina (president 1932-1933) bar associations, North Carolina State Bar (council 1933-1941). Kiwanian.; Club: Benvenue Country (Rocky Mount).
Married Laura Maud Bunn, October 30, 1917. Children: Elizabeth Mershon (Mistress Irving Grossberg), Laura (Mistress Emerson C. Winstead, Junior.