Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....BATTIN, Joshua 1819 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
       JOSHUA BATTIN is among the oldest residents of Sullivan county, and was
  born in Fox township March 21, 1819, when that township was known as Elkland. He
  has passed all of his life as a resident of these two townships. He was an
  industrious youth, and at the age of twenty-two began to take care of himself,
  working on the railroad at track work or for the neighboring farmers. He then
  cultivated the homestead, raising stock and saving his earnings until he had
  accumulated sufficient to purchase land of his own. His first farm was in his
  native township; this he soon sold and bought land in Elkland township. He
  continued to buy at different times and was at one time the owner of two hundred
  and fifty acres. Much of this land has since been sold. It was his custom to buy
  land partly improved, and he has cleared some fifty acres of timber. He devotes
  his time to stock-raising and general farming.
  
      His grandfather, John Battin, was born in Chester county, on the Brandywine
  river. He married Susanna McDermitt and lived in Columbia, Lycoming and Sullivan
  counties, dying in the latter. He was a surveyor and school-teacher, many years
  having been spent in the latter employment in this county. Being a man of more
  than ordinary education, his services were in much demand in writing for his
  neighbors. Of his children, John was a weaver in Columbia county; Henry was a
  farmer and horse-dealer in the same county; and Marshall, the father of our
  subject.
  
      Marshall Battin was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 23, 1784.
  He was married in that part of Lycoming county, now Fox township, Sullivan
  county, March 27, 1809, to Mary Hoagland, of Elkland township, Esquire Eldred
  performing the ceremony. Soon after his marriage he received a tract of one
  hundred acres of land as a homestead from the Barclays, offered by them as an
  inducement to open up the wilderness to settlement. This land lay in Elkland and
  was wild timber land. He cleared some seventy-five acres and did farming and
  stock-raising. He took a deep interest in politics, especially during his later
  years. He was first a Democrat, became a Whig, and at the time of his death was
  a Republican. He served his town as supervisor and auditor several times. Both
  he and his wife were members of the Friends' church and were earnest Christians.
  Their family was composed of the following children, viz.: John, born March 3,
  1810, a farmer of Fox township, deceased; Joseph, born May 6, 1812, also was a
  farmer in Fox township, and died there; Henry, born June 6, 1815, resided in the
  same township, and died July 19, 1859; Hannah was born September 9, 1816,
  married George Kilmer and died in Nebraska; Joshua, whose history is here
  briefly given; Samuel, born November 25, 1821, is a farmer in Fox township, as
  is Reuben, who was born May 18, 1826; and Benjamin, born October 24, 1831, and
  died January 30, 1835. Marshall Battin was a noted hunter, even for that time,
  and killed a great deal of the game which was so plentiful in that region. He
  died December 4, 1875. His wife was born December 30, 1789, and died December 2,
  1880.
  
      Joshua Battin was married in Elkland township, to Miss Ellen Woodhead, a
  native of England, by whom he had three children, namely: Mary Hannah, who died
  at the age of five years; Edwin P., a farmer of Forks township; and Walter C.,
  living in Elkland township. After the death of his wife, Mr. Battin contracted a
  second matrimonial alliance, with Miss Amelia Hess, a daughter of Christian Hess
  and a native of Germany. They are members and liberal contributors to the
  Friends' church, and are quick to respond to the call of any worthy object. He
  is a stanch Republican, and has been supervisor, auditor and school director,
  and also served on the board of election.
  
  
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              Extracted from: 
                
              History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
              by Thomas J. Ingham
                
              Compendium of Biography
                
              The Lewis Publishing Company
              Chicago: 1899
  
  
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