Josiah Monroe Batten
Josiah Monroe Batten



(Page 464) Josiah Monroe Batten, son of Thomas J. and Hannah A. Batten, of Salem County, was born June 24, 1849. His ancestors on both sides came from Sweden, and were prominent among the early settlers of Swedesboro. His father was a farmer and a justice of the peace, besides holding other township offices. He died in May 1876. His wife survived him a year.

The subject of this sketch was educated at the Academy of Salem and at the State Normal School at Trenton. When twenty years of age he began teaching near Pedricktown, Salem Co. He taught at Penn�s Grove, Atlantic City, and other places for a number of years.

On Christmas day, 1873, Mr. Batten married Susanna Nelson, daughter of Rev. Jacob and Mary Banks. They have two children, - Roland Nelson and Effie Banks. He is now residing on the farm that has been in his wife�s family since the latter part of the seventeenth century. Her great-grandfather was an officer in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Batten formerly belonged to the Republican Party, but is now a prohibitionist. He is a deacon in the Baptist Church of Woodstown, of which church his wife is also a member.

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