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Batchelder, Samuel, 1784-1879

 Person

Biography

Samuel Batchedler was born in New Hampshire in 1784. He served as superintendent at the Hamilton Mills in Lowell Massachusetts. In 1846, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and continued to serve as President of the Hamilton Mills. He died in 1879.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Greenleaf and Hubbard business records

Collection Identifier: Mss:761 1850-1860 G814
Overview:

Records of a cotton commission firm of New Orleans, mainly correspondence with treasurers of New England cotton mills.

Hamilton Manufacturing Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:442 1825-1917
Scope and Contents: Correspondence, minute books, general account books, production records, sales records, and payrolls. Letters include those of treasurers Thomas G. Gary, William B. Bacon, Arthur T. Lyman, Arthur L. Devens, George Motley, Eben Bacon, Samuel Batchelder, James A. Dupee, and Charles B. Amory; agents Samuel Batchelder, John Avery, and O. H. Moulton; and selling agents Frothingham and Company and Joy, Langdon and Company. Between 1827 and 1876, women constituted the greatest majority...