Background
Batchelder, Wallace was born on June 20, 1875 in Andover, Vermont, United States. Son of Edmund Abel and Lizzie Emma (Nutting) Batchelder.
Batchelder, Wallace was born on June 20, 1875 in Andover, Vermont, United States. Son of Edmund Abel and Lizzie Emma (Nutting) Batchelder.
Graduate Chester (Vermont) Academy, 1892.
Studied law in office of Waterman & Martin, Brattleboro, Vermont, and later in office of Hunton & Stickney, Bethel, Vermont. Admitted Vermont bar, May 17, 1904, to practice in the United States courts, September 11, 1905. Counsel for Roosevelt forces in contests before Republican National Committee, Chicago, June, 1912.
Chairman Vermont Roosevelt Committee presidential campaign, 1912.
Was on stump in Vermont, New Hampshire (U.S.) and Massachusetts Trooper in 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry (Roosevelt’s Rough Riders), 1898, Spanish-American War. Commissioned by President McKinley First lieutenant United States Volumes, August 17, 1899.
Commander Company B, and later Company C, of the 46th United States Infantry, Volumes during campaign in Philippine Islands Honorary discharge May 31, 1901.
Mason.
Married Maude Leone Thompson, October 16, 1901.