Battelle, A. M.

BATTELLE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/4/2008 at 13:45:03

A. M. Battelle

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.239, Valley Twp.)
A. M. Battelle, farmer, P. O. Avoca, was born in Washington County, Ohio, in 1830, son of C. D. and E. G. Battelle; subject's father is living at Columbus, Ohio, and is seventy-six years old; he was a Methodist minister until 1881, when he retired. Mr. Battelle was well educated in Ohio and West Virginia, and first started in life in 1849, as a telegraph operator, which occupation he followed nine years. The first office he had charge of was at Portsmouth, Ohio; from there he went to Brownsville, Penn., but the greater portion of his life as an operator was spent at Washington, Ohio, and Wheeling, W. Va. The last two years spent in Wheeling, he was engaged in the grocery business, coming from Wheeling to his present place in 1855; he pre-empted his land. Mr. Battelle was married, in 1852, in Washington, Ohio, to Miss Aramintha Beymer, born in Ohio, daughter of Williamd and Julia Beymer. Mrs. Battelle's father is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Battelle have seven children - three boys and four girls; two of the daughters are married and one son is in Hancock. Mr. Battelle's farm consists of 200 acres, all in cultivation and meadow. He was a member of the Board of County Supervisors for seven yeasr, being Chairman of the board for five years; he has held various township offices and has been on the School Board for many years. Mr. Battelle had the first pine house in Pottawattamie County; it was framed in Wheeling, W. Va., shipped on the river and landed at the old landing in Council Bluffs. Mr. Battelle is a Mason and a Republican.