Collection Dates: 1847 -- 1976
(Bulk Dates: [1860s -- 1880s]
.75 linear ft.
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Posted to Internet: January 2003
Acquisition
Note: This collection was donated to the University of Iowa
Libraries by Jean Bonar of Fairfield, Iowa, in 1959.
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Joseph Mayo Batchelder, born 1822, was raised by his father, Joseph, and stepmother, Rachel Stone. He was a Presbyterian minister, having graduated from Princeton's Theological Seminary in 1855. Batchelder first served as pastor in Albia, Iowa (1856 --1878). During part of this time, he was also state clerk of the Des Moines Presbytery for seventeen years. The majority of his ministry was spent in Osborne, Kansas, where he moved in 1878 to later form the First Presbyterian Church there.
In 1855, Batchelder married Harriet Frances Gearhart. They had one son (d. 1864) and four daughters: Mary, Lillian ("Harriet's Daughter," "Harriet's Second") Mina, and Annie. Lillian married Joseph Donahue Bonar in 1859. They had one daughter, Jean Bonar, this collection's donor.
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Box List
Box 1
Batchelder
Children's school notes and notebooks, 1879 -- 1888? 5 items
Batchelder, Joseph M.
Notebooks, 1844 -- 1897 and undated. 14 items
Sermons, lectures, etc., 1862 -- 1895 and undated. 57 items
Bonar, Jean
"Harriet's Daughter," 1953
Recollections, 1975
"To Harriet," 1976
Bonar, Lillian Frances Batchelder
"Harriet's Second," 1945
Compositions
Written by the Batchelder daughters, 1875 -- 1885. 14 items
Box 2
Correspondence
Batchelder family, 1844 -- 1894. 58 items.
Bonar, 1902 -- 1956. 9 items
Diary
Harriet Gearhart Batchelder, 1847 -- 1848. 1 item
Photographs
Joseph M. Batchelder and Kate I. Jones. 2 items.
Presbyterian churches
Printed material, primarily. 1866 -- 1951. 26 items.
Stone, William L., II. The Stone Family. Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1888. 1 item
Oversized Folder
Photograph,
Presbyterian General Assembly, 1883.
Certificate of Contribution, Five Million Memorial Fund, 1871.
