Son of NEHEMIAH BATCHELLOR & LYDIA CURTIS

Military Service: mid 1840s, Navy, served on man-of-war (canon-armed wooden naval vessel propelled by sails)

Occupation: Hotel clerk; farmer and stock raiser; mining; partner in livery stable "Chatfield & Batchellor" with Isaac W. Chatfield (brother of Ellen)

Politics: Member of Colorado Territorial Legislature in 1872 & 1876; County Commissioner/Denver; Street Commissioner of Leadville, Colorado in 1881; Colorado State Superintendent of Irrigation

Affiliation: Colorado Agricultural Society, Society of Colorado Pioneers

Born: Bowdoin, Lincoln Co. (now Sagadahoc Co.), Maine

Died: Denver, Arapahoe Co. (now Denver Co.), Colorado; paralysis

Married: Mar 13, 1872, ELLEN CHARLOTTE CHATFIELD, Denver, Arapahoe Co., Colorado

(Ellen was age 26 and Isaac age 44)

Two children:

1. Walter David BATCHELLOR

1872 - 1934

2. Charlotte Ellen BATCHELLOR

1874 - 1950

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Another old pioneer passed away yesterday afternoon. Isaac H. Batchellor died at his late residence. No. 1337 Corona St., Denver Co., from the effects of paralysis. He was 66 years of age and leaves a widow and two children. Isaac Batchellor arrived in Denver late in 1859. He came direct from Chicago and at once went into the mountains, mining. In the year following his migration westward he settled in Leadville and there remained several years. Afterwards he came to Denver and, purchasing a ranch near the city, engaged in stock-raising. There he remained a number of years, combining other occupations and interests with his cattle industry. At one time he was a member of the firm of Chatfield & Batchellor of Leadville. He twice held public office, being a member of the Territorial Legislature in 1872 and County Commissioner of Arapahoe County four years later. His fortune fluctuated with the times, and once in his life he was reputed to be worth much money. Mr. Batchellor was always of a roving disposition, and this trend was not lost even in his later days. Born in Maine, when still a lad he conceived a desire for a seafaring life and shipped aboard a United States man-of-war. For three years he cruised off the west coast of Africa, seeing much service fighting slavers and protecting commerce. Finally returning to his native country, young Batchellor moved westward by States, his last stopping place before coming to Colorado being the then struggling town of Chicago. Like almost all of those men who made the early history of this State, Mr. Batchellor had many friends. His life, although a roving one, was yet domestic, and his two terms of public service were thrust upon him rather than sought for. Of late years he has led a secluded existence within his own circle of acquaintances, and had the good-will of all who knew him. Res. Denver, Col., 1337 Corona St.

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Isaac H. Batchellor

Mr. Batchellor is a native of Maine; he was born in the town of Bowdoin, near the Atlantic coast, where he resided only a few years before removing to Worcester County, Massachusetts, to make his home with an uncle; while he resided with his relative, he worked on a farm and attended school, a portion of the time at an academy located in Winchendon in Worcester County. At the age of seventeen, Mr. Batchellor had a desire to see other parts of the world than New England; he enlisted for three years in a man-of-war; during eighteen months of his enlistment, he was off the coast of Africa, watching parties who were engaged in the slave trade; the remainder of the time, his vessel was in the Mediterranean Sea; it was lying off Toulon at the time Louis Phillippe abdicated his throne in favor of his grandson, Feb 24, 1848, and it was near the coast of Italy when Charles Albert went out to fight the Austrians. Mr. Batchellor witnessed much of the exciting period in the history of Europe the three years he was absent from America.

After his return, he resided in several of the New England States, engaged in various occupations, before he came West; for six years, he lived in Chicago, where he filled the position of hotel clerk at the Foster House, which was destroyed in the great fire of 1871. For more than twenty years prior to 1881, Mr. Batchellor has been a resident of Colorado; a greater portion of that time, Arapahoe County has been his home, where he bought a farm four miles distant from the city of Denver, and was engaged in stock-raising in connection with his ranch. In 1872, he was a member of the Territorial Legislature, and in 1876 served his county as one if its Commissioners. In 1879, he sold out his farming and stock-raising interests and moved to Leadville, where he is engaged in the livery business; is a member of the firm of Chatfield & Batchellor, livery, feed and sale stable, 126 East Sixth street, Mr. Batchellor was married in 1872, and has two children.

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Source: Illustrated History of Arkansas Valley, Colorado, by O.L. Baskin, Chicago, Illinois, 1881

Note: Colorado's Arkansas Valley includes Lake County and the Ten Mile Region, El Paso County, Chaffee County, Fremont County, Custer County, Pueblo County, and Bent County.

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Funeral Notice, 16 Mar 1894 The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), CO

"Batchelor [Batchellor]- Members of the Pioneers' association are requested to meet at room 309 Charles block on Saturday, at 1 o'clock to attend the funeral of Isaac H. Batchelor."