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Loring W. Batten

Rector, St. Mark's in the Bowery

Centurion, 1901–1946

Full Name Loring Woart Batten

Born 17 November 1859 in Mullica Hill, New Jersey

Died 6 January 1946 in Media, Pennsylvania

Buried Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro, New Jersey

Proposed by William Reed Huntington and Henry Codman Potter

Elected 2 November 1901 at age forty-one

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Century Memorial

Loring Woart Batten. [Born] 1859. Clergyman, teacher; forty-five years a Centurion

Former rector of St. Marks in the Bouwerie, sometime professor in the General Theological Seminary and its dean, this country boy from New Jersey taught school to get a start in college and then worked his way through, graduating from Harvard, cum laude. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and of Sacred Theology came later and he was the author of a half-dozen theological books, but he remained a country boy to the end—a trout fisherman, an excitable baseball fan, a Buck Hills Falls golfer, and a fast shot at quail and grouse. What he could do with a light 20-gauge gun was something few men of any age could equal and as a rooter for the New York Giants few boys could match him in his eighties.

A staunch character: learned, loveable and boyish to the end.

Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia

Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1946 Memorials