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He was born on June 8, 1784, at Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
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He was born on June 8, 1784, at Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
He was reared and educated at New Ipswich, where his father was first postmaster of the town and conducted a tavern and general store.
Before his sixteenth year he became manager of his father's store but in 1804 engaged in business for himself at Peterboro, N. H. , and in 1806 at Exeter. On his return to New Ipswich, in 1808, he purchased an interest in one of the town's two cotton mills, which produced 300 pounds of yarn weekly, and gave employment to about 100 home weavers, and before 1812 was its principal owner and manager.
As a leading citizen, he filled such offices as selectman, town clerk, postmaster, and, eventually, representative in the legislature, where he was a member of the committee first proposing Daniel Webster for nomination to Congress.
His active career, continuing to the advanced age of eighty-six years, included connections with various prominent concerns, notably the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, of which he was manager (1824 - 31), president (1859 - 70), and treasurer (1869 - 71); the Exeter Manufacturing Company, of which he was manager (1855 - 72); the Everett Mills, of which he was treasurer (1859 - 70); and the Essex Company, of which he was president (1867 - 70). He removed, in 1825, to East Chelmsford, Massachussets, where he was a member of its first board of selectmen; and in 1846, to Cambridge, where he resided until his death, serving on the first board of aldermen, under the new city charter, and as representative in the Massachusetts legislature (1847).
Batchelder invented and introduced many new devices for cotton manufacture, although generally neglecting to seek patent protection. One of his earliest inventions was a machine for winding "cotton balls" for darning and fancy work. Later he produced a loom to weave pillow cases without a seam, providing a hand-controlled movement to close the bottom. In 1832, he invented a stop-motion for the drawing frame, a valuable innovation, since, before its introduction, the slender fleeces of cotton, without twist, had not been strong enough to stand the operation of drawing. A device for dressing yarn for weaving substituted brass steam-cylinders for the usual wood rolls, but was little used because of the small number of power mills then existing.
He was a constant writer for newspapers and the author of Responsibility of the North in Relation to Slavery (1856); Young Men of America (1860); Free Trade and the Tariff (1861); Introduction and Early Progress of Cotton Manufacture in the United States (1863).
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In 1810 he married Mary Montgomery, by whom he had six children.