Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-03
NOTED JUDGE Is DEAD
PASSING OF GEN. GEORGE SHER-
NAN BATCHELLER IN PARIS.

PARIS. July Gen. George Sherman
Batcheller, the American member of the
international tribunal at Cairo. Egypt,
died here yesterday afternoon. The cause
of death was cancer of the mouth. from
which he had been suffering for some
time. He had been seriously ill in this
city for the past week.
Gen. George Sherman Batcheller was
born in Batchellerville. near Saratoga.
n. v, June -, 1851. He was the son of
Sherman Batcheller. one of the best
known residents of Saratoga county, and
a power in the local politics of the first
quarter of the nineteenth century.
Mr. Batcheller gained his preliminary
education at the Fort Edward Institute
and entered the law college of Harvard
with the class of 1851. After his gradu-
alton he studied law in the office Of one of
his father friends in Saratoga, and was
admitted to the bar the year following his
graduation He commenced practlcing
Immediately at Saratoga. and in the same
year he was elected To the lower house OF
the New York legislature, being then just
twenty-One years Old.
AT the outbreak of the civil war Mr.
Batcheller was commissioned in the 11.th
New York Infantry as u captain. He
served throughout the war with this regi-
p
der general. In the battle of EarperS
Ferry he captured and later ex-
changed He served through all the Viz
ginia campaigns and participated in the
siege of Charleston. He was made dep
uty provost marshal general of the De
partment of the South in 1853. During the
last year of the war he was made in
spectOr general of volunteers and National
Guard of New York state.
When President f4ncOln'S body was
passing in state from Washington TO
Springfield. H.. Gen. Batcheller was APP
pointed 10 accompany it through New
York as representative of the state.
After the war Gen. Batcheller resumed his
law practice in Saratoga. He was elected
a member of the state assembly in 1873,
and had served one year in that office
when President Grant appointed him
American judge in the International tri-
that body Gen. Batcheller was made the
presiding justice OF the court.
He resigned that position in 1885 to
serve again in the state legislature OF
New York, where he was seated for two
successive terms. Then President Har-
rison appointed Gen. BatchelIer first as
sistant secretary of the treasury a posi-
ton which he held from 1889 10 1891,
when he was sent as minister to Portugal
From 1s9: he the American dtplo-
matte representative in Europe. with
headquarters in Paris. Following this ne
was for a year European manager OF the
companies. In 1895 Gen. Batcheler was
appointed to preside over the delibera-
tions Of the universal postal congress
held in Washington.
Distinguished honor was paid to Gen
Batcheller by the Egyptian government
which i'll 1895 specially requested the
American government 10 reappoint him &c
the international tribunal. 1t was while
he was holding this second tenure in
Cairo that his wife. who had been Miss
Cook of Albany. died. and the khedlve
and all of the Egyptian court broke prece-
dent and attended her funeral The khe-
dive later sent wreath from Cairo to the
Batcheller cemetery plot in Saratoga
where Ms. Batcheiler was inferred. The
last government appointment that came
To Gen. BatCheller was that by Presi-
dent Roosevelt who made him a justice
of the International court of appeal II
MAY. 1902
Gen. Ratcheller leaves one daughter
Miss lfh'e Ratcheller. He was member
of the Military order of the Loyal Legion
IN this country, and abroad he was made
grand officer Of the Imperial Order OF
the Nedj!deh and decorated by King
Humbert of Italy with the cross and in
sigma of the Order Of the Crown OF Italy