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November 28, 1807

December 1, 1897

Norfolk, CT

Norfolk, CT
Cleveland, OH
Middlebury, VT

Emma Seymour Battelle (October 12, 1836)

Philip Battelle was a descendant of Thomas Battelle who emigrated from England to Dedham, Massachusetts prior to 1648. His father was Joseph Battelle who settled in Norfolk, Connecticut in 1792 at the age of eighteen. Joseph Battelle became a successful merchant handling dairy products from local farms which he delivered to Hartford and New York City. He married Sarah Robbins, the daughter of Norfolk's Congregational Minister, the Reverend Ammi R. Robbins. They had four sons and five daughters.

Philip, the second of their nine children was born on November 28, 1807. He prepared for college in Lenox and Granville, Massachusetts and attended Yale for two years before enrolling in Middlebury College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1826. He also received a Master's Degree from ...Yale College in 1826. Battelle also studied law with William G. Williams of North Hartford, Connecticut and attended law classes at Yale Law School. In 1828 he attended the Litchfield Law School and passed the bar there in 1829. From 1829 to 1838, he practiced law in Norfolk, Connecticut and then moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he continued to practice law. He then moved to Middlebury, Vermont, where he resided at his wife's family homestead until his death.

On October 12, 1836, Battelle married Emma Hart Seymour, the namesake of Emma Hart Willard. She was the daughter of Litchfield Female Academy student Lucy Case and Litchfield Law School alumni Horatio Seymour. Her brother, Ozias Seymour attended the Law School in 1821.

Philip Battelle died on December 1, 1897, a few days after his ninetieth birthday, in Middlebury, Vermont.
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"Mrs. Stoeckel says that Philip Battell was an odd member of her grandfather Battell's family of nine children. He was very dreamy, poetic and unpractical, - always missing trains- always forgetting things- but courteous and charming in his manners. He was always writing affectionate letters to Mrs. Stockel which he began, in the manner of the English Royal Family, 'My dear Cousin!' He settled in Middlebury, Vermont, where he married the daughter of Judge Seymour, who must have had Litchfield antecedents. He lived in the fine old Seymour house, which is still owned by his descendants. Mrs. Stoeckel remembers him as a handsome and charming old gentleman. He lived to be over ninety, in full possession of his faculties. She asks me to add that Philip Battell never practiced law anywhere."
Samuel ...Fisher Collection, Litchfield Historical Society, Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library, Box 4, Miscellaneous Correspondence, Sydney Thompson to Samuel Fisher.

"...while a law student at the old Litchfield School he [Philip Battell] became engaged to Emma Seymour, who was in Litchfield attending Miss Pierce's School - after their marriage they made a part of Mr [Horatio] Seymour's household, who was then a widower and they lived and died at the homestead in Middlebury [VT]."
Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, Interview with Dr. Josiah G. Beckwith, Chronicles of a Pioneer School, page 292.
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1828

Attended Yale College for two years before enrolling in Middlebury College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1826. He recevied a Master's Degree from Yale College in 1826.

Lawyer

1829

He studied law with William G. Williams of North Hartford, CT.

[We are currently working to update and confirm citations of attendance.]

Crissey, Theron Wilmot and Joseph Eldridge. 1744-1900, History of Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Higginson Book Co., 1992.

Cothren, William. History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut from the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1879. Woodbubry, CT: Published by William Cothren, 1879.

Howard, Walter E. and Charles E. Prentis, Comp. Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont and of other who have received degrees 1800 to 1900. Middlebury, VT: The Register Co., Print, 1901.