From History of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois, Vol. II by Hon. William E. Nelson published 1910 by Pioneer Publishing Company, Chicago:
"An excellent farm of three hundred acres pays tribute to Moses E. Batchelder, who has won a creditable position among the representative agriculturists of Illini township. The place is sibuated about five and one half miles northwest of Harristown and judicious cultivation has made this a valuable and productive tract. He has now passed the eighty-seventh milestone on life's journey, his birth having occurred in New Hampshire on the 12th of July 1823. He is a son of Moses Batchelder, Sr. who was born in the year 1782 and died in 1861. Moses E. Batchelder arrived in Macon county in the fall of 1864 and here invested in land. He had been educated in the east and his thorough home training well qualified him for the practical and responsible duties that devolved upon him following his removal to the west. He had been engaged in the lumber business in the east but after coming to Illinois took up farming and stock-raising and has been quite successful in this department of labor. He is today the owner of three hundred acres about four miles north of Harristown. The land is arable, responding readily to the care and labor which he bestows upon it, and his careful cultivation of the fields results in the production of large crops, for which he finds a ready sale on the market.
In 1852 Mr. Batchelder was married to Miss Sarah Batchelder, a daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder, of New Hampshire. They came the parents of five children. Through his carefully conducted business affairs Mr. Batchelder always provided a comfortable living for his wife and children. In the management and operation of the farm his judgment has been sound, his methods practical and the results desirable. He has not allowed business cares to exclude his active participation in other interests, however, for he has served as a trustee of his township and as a member of the school board, while with the Congregational church he holds membership and conforms his life to its teachings."
"An excellent farm of three hundred acres pays tribute to Moses E. Batchelder, who has won a creditable position among the representative agriculturists of Illini township. The place is sibuated about five and one half miles northwest of Harristown and judicious cultivation has made this a valuable and productive tract. He has now passed the eighty-seventh milestone on life's journey, his birth having occurred in New Hampshire on the 12th of July 1823. He is a son of Moses Batchelder, Sr. who was born in the year 1782 and died in 1861. Moses E. Batchelder arrived in Macon county in the fall of 1864 and here invested in land. He had been educated in the east and his thorough home training well qualified him for the practical and responsible duties that devolved upon him following his removal to the west. He had been engaged in the lumber business in the east but after coming to Illinois took up farming and stock-raising and has been quite successful in this department of labor. He is today the owner of three hundred acres about four miles north of Harristown. The land is arable, responding readily to the care and labor which he bestows upon it, and his careful cultivation of the fields results in the production of large crops, for which he finds a ready sale on the market.
In 1852 Mr. Batchelder was married to Miss Sarah Batchelder, a daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder, of New Hampshire. They came the parents of five children. Through his carefully conducted business affairs Mr. Batchelder always provided a comfortable living for his wife and children. In the management and operation of the farm his judgment has been sound, his methods practical and the results desirable. He has not allowed business cares to exclude his active participation in other interests, however, for he has served as a trustee of his township and as a member of the school board, while with the Congregational church he holds membership and conforms his life to its teachings."
From History of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois, Vol. II by Hon. William E. Nelson published 1910 by Pioneer Publishing Company, Chicago:
"An excellent farm of three hundred acres pays tribute to Moses E. Batchelder, who has won a creditable position among the representative agriculturists of Illini township. The place is sibuated about five and one half miles northwest of Harristown and judicious cultivation has made this a valuable and productive tract. He has now passed the eighty-seventh milestone on life's journey, his birth having occurred in New Hampshire on the 12th of July 1823. He is a son of Moses Batchelder, Sr. who was born in the year 1782 and died in 1861. Moses E. Batchelder arrived in Macon county in the fall of 1864 and here invested in land. He had been educated in the east and his thorough home training well qualified him for the practical and responsible duties that devolved upon him following his removal to the west. He had been engaged in the lumber business in the east but after coming to Illinois took up farming and stock-raising and has been quite successful in this department of labor. He is today the owner of three hundred acres about four miles north of Harristown. The land is arable, responding readily to the care and labor which he bestows upon it, and his careful cultivation of the fields results in the production of large crops, for which he finds a ready sale on the market.
In 1852 Mr. Batchelder was married to Miss Sarah Batchelder, a daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder, of New Hampshire. They came the parents of five children. Through his carefully conducted business affairs Mr. Batchelder always provided a comfortable living for his wife and children. In the management and operation of the farm his judgment has been sound, his methods practical and the results desirable. He has not allowed business cares to exclude his active participation in other interests, however, for he has served as a trustee of his township and as a member of the school board, while with the Congregational church he holds membership and conforms his life to its teachings."
"An excellent farm of three hundred acres pays tribute to Moses E. Batchelder, who has won a creditable position among the representative agriculturists of Illini township. The place is sibuated about five and one half miles northwest of Harristown and judicious cultivation has made this a valuable and productive tract. He has now passed the eighty-seventh milestone on life's journey, his birth having occurred in New Hampshire on the 12th of July 1823. He is a son of Moses Batchelder, Sr. who was born in the year 1782 and died in 1861. Moses E. Batchelder arrived in Macon county in the fall of 1864 and here invested in land. He had been educated in the east and his thorough home training well qualified him for the practical and responsible duties that devolved upon him following his removal to the west. He had been engaged in the lumber business in the east but after coming to Illinois took up farming and stock-raising and has been quite successful in this department of labor. He is today the owner of three hundred acres about four miles north of Harristown. The land is arable, responding readily to the care and labor which he bestows upon it, and his careful cultivation of the fields results in the production of large crops, for which he finds a ready sale on the market.
In 1852 Mr. Batchelder was married to Miss Sarah Batchelder, a daughter of Nathaniel Batchelder, of New Hampshire. They came the parents of five children. Through his carefully conducted business affairs Mr. Batchelder always provided a comfortable living for his wife and children. In the management and operation of the farm his judgment has been sound, his methods practical and the results desirable. He has not allowed business cares to exclude his active participation in other interests, however, for he has served as a trustee of his township and as a member of the school board, while with the Congregational church he holds membership and conforms his life to its teachings."
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