Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Batterman, Henry C. 1855 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

HENRY C. BATTERMAN.

    Henry C. Batterman, prominent in the industrial, mercantile and financial
affairs of Dyer, St. John township, began his career at this place some thirty
years ago, with his trade and his character as his principal capital, and during
the intervening period has come to be one of the most influential business men
of this part of Lake county. He has been prominently identified with nearly all
the affairs of Dyer, whether of a business, social or political or whatsoever
nature, and is an all-round worthy citizen whom all esteem and hold in highest
regard.

    Mr. Batterman is a brother of Edward Batterman, the well known business man
of Hobart, and in whose personal history on other pages of this work will be
found the parental and ancestral records. Mr. H. C. Batterman was born in Will
county, Illinois, October 10, 1855, and was reared and educated there. He
learned the harness-making business, and at the age of twenty, in 1875, came to
Lake county, where he continued to work at his trade, following it altogether
for twenty-two years. He prospered from the first, and has been on the up-grade
ever since he started out on his own hook. In 1894 he established a livery
business in Dyer, and has carried it on very successfully to the present time.
In 1900 he opened his machine and blacksmith shops and agricultural implement
house, and in these lines does a large and steadily increasing business. He took
a leading part at the organization of the First National Bank at Dyer, and is a
director and the vice-president of that substantial financial institution. He
also owns stock in the creamery at Dyer, and is secretary and treasurer of the
Horse Breeders' Association at Dyer. He has had an annual trade in his implement
and shops enterprise amounting to over ten thousand dollars, and his business
push and energy are continually increasing his hold on the commercial and
industrial affairs of the county. In public matters and political questions he
has always adhered to the principles and policies of the Republican party. He
has served as superintendent of roads and was on the township advisory board. He
has also been active in religious affairs, and is an official member of the Dyer
Union church.

    Mr. Batterman has been married three times. His first wife was Mary Richart,
by whom he had one son, Joe B. The second marriage was with Maggie Young, and
his present wife was Miss Helen Richart, a sister of his first wife. They have
two living children, Carrie and Johanna. Fraternally he is a member of the Order
of the Foresters of America, Council No. 16, at Dyer, and he was a member of the
High Order of Foresters.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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