PHILIP BATTELL [class of 1826], son of Joseph and Sarah (Robbins) Battell. Born in Norfolk, Conn., Nov. 28, 1807. Prepared for College in Lenox and Granville, Mass. Entered from Yale. Studied law with William G. Williams, North Hartford, Conn., and at Yale Law School. Admitted to the bar, 1829. Lawyer, Connecticut, 1829-1833; Cleveland, O., 1833-1838. Resided in Middlebury, 1838-1897. Married Emma Seymour, Oct. 12, 1836. Children: Emma [Mrs. John W. Stewart]; Joseph. A. B., and Yale, 1826; A. M. Died in Middlebury, Vt., Dec. 1, 1897. (from the Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont 1800-1900, compiled by Walter E. Howard & Charles E. Prentiss, pub. by Middlebury College, 1901)
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Ninety and yet we never thought him old
who knew him in that autumn of his youth,
the courteous heart, the spirit never cold
to beauty or to truth.
And memory so recalls him not with tears
but rather with rejoicing that he went
bearing beneath the burden of his years
a soul so little bent.