The Biographical Dictionary of America/Batchelder, Samuel

​BATCHELDER, Samuel, manufacturer, was born at Jaffrey. N.H., June 8, 1784. In 1808 he entered the cotton manufacturing business in Ipswich, N.H., and later transferred his interests to Lowell, Mass. He thoroughly understood both the practical and theoretical sides of his business, and became very influential among manufacturing men and elsewhere. He was president of five large manufacturing establishments at one time, with an aggregate capital of five million dollars. Aside from making a number of useful inventions and improvements in machinery, he was the author of "Responsibilities of the North in Relation to Slavery," published in 1856, and wrote, when he was nearly eighty years of age, "History of the Progress of Cotton Manufactures in the United States." He died at Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 5, 1879.

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