B48,261,1.
Nathaniel Horton Batchelder, Jr., only child of Gwendolen
Sedgwick (Mead) Batchelder and Nathaniel Horton Batchelder,
was born February 9, 1917, at Hartford, Conn. He attended the
Loomis School and graduated at Harvard, B.A., in 1939. At
Harvard he captained the fencing team, intercollegiate champions,
was vice president of the Phillips Brooks House and a member of
the Iroquois and Hasty Pudding clubs. He is a trustee of Fenn
School. He married at Fort Dodge, Iowa, Elizabeth Hope Burnquist
of Fort Dodge, daughter of Grace Sterns Burnquist and Bert Blaine
Burnquist. They resided at Windsor, Conn., where he was teacher
of English and public speaking in the Loomis School until he entered
the United States Naval Reserve March 1, 1943. At Hollywood,
Florida where he trained in the Indoctrination School with the rank
of Ensign, was assigned as instructor in that school and subsequently
as instructor in the General Line School at Shelton, Va., finishing his
training there as the Second World War ended. After two weeks'
training in Washington, having been promoted to Lieutenant j.g., he
became Educational Services Officer on the U.S.S. Protheus, where
he served in 1946.
B48,262.
Dwight Ellery Sedgwick, formerly Allen Sands Metcalf Mead, 2d
child of Helen Ellery (Sedgwick) Metcalf Mead (B48,26) and John
A. Metcalf, was born March 5, 1886, in New York City and
graduated at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., in 1906, and at
William College in 1910. He married May 5, 1929, Natalie
Peterson, who was born in Boston, Mass., May 5, 1892, and who
died July 7, 1936. He is connected with the Sears Roebuck
Company at Glendale, California, where he resides with his mother
at 1429 Valley View.
B48,4.
Susan Ridley Sedgwick, 4th child of Robert (B48) and Elizabeth
Dana (Ellery) Sedgwick, was born January 28, 1828, and died
March 17, 1883, at Newport, R.I. She married as his second wife
October 1, 1855, Charles E. Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Butler. Charles Butler was born March 22, 1818, and died May 1,
1897, at New York City. He was one of the original partners of
Evarts, Southmayd & Choate of New York City, a distinguished law
firm which became Evarts, Choate & Beaman. The beautiful St.
Paul's Episcopal Church at Stockbridge,
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