Parents: Benjamin
A. and Huldah ( Eddy ) Battey; both of
Providence, RI.
1817 birth of Isaac S. Battey in
Providence on November 1, 1817 ( RI Cemetery
Database )
1840 marriage on June 8,
1840, of Isaac to Clarissa Ann Child, dau. of
John G. Child & Mary A. (Ham) Child;
service at Pine St. 2nd Baptist Church
1841 Apr 1, 1841, appearance of
co-partnership notice in Prov. Journal
announcing that Isaac S. Battey & James A.
Eddy have entered into business as "Battey
& Eddy", Hardware Merchants & Plane
Manuf., "and taken the store at #5 Broad
Street, Providence, RI, where they intend
keeping a general assortment of Hardware,
Planes and Joiner's Tools" [ see
Battey & Eddy ]
1843 Prov. Almanac - Isaac
Battey gives his work address as Dyer
Street. As this information may have
been gathered in 1842, it is apparent that the
firm of "Battey and Eddy" was short lived.
Both the co-partnership notice and hardware
advertisement ran in the Prov. journal for
only 6 months, and it's possible that
"Battey & Eddy" lasted as briefly as this.
1844 Prov. Almanac - Isaac
lists himself as a planemaker, working at the
same address as Tallman & Bucklin, a large
firm that made blinds & sash, dealt in
lumber, box making, engraving to calico,
architectural drafting and planing.
Isaac likely occupied a portion of the second
floor as J. E. Child, planemaker, later gives
the second floor of this same address as his
working location.
*Note: Called himself a planemaker
until about 1849-1850
1854/1855/1856 - clerk at the Dean
Planing Works, 35 Dorrance St.,,
Providence
1860 RI Products of Industry
Census; Isaac has 9 employees and is running a
millwork business within the Dean Planing
Works on Dorrance Street
1864/65/66/67/68 Prov. Dir.:
Isaac S. Battey, bds. 104 Clifford
1869 no Isaac listed
1870 Fed Census, Isaac
Battey 51, ship carpenter ,
RI ($25,000 net worth); ( Isaac and
his wife are still living within the household
of his father-in-law, John G. Child who was a
shipbuilder. )
1870/74/78/80/82/83/84 Prov.
Dir: Isaac S. Battey, house 205 Clifford
1886/87 Prov. Dir: Isaac
S. Battey, house, 156 Elm
1890/92/93/95/9697/98 Prov.
Dir. Isaac S. Battey, h. 178 Clifford
1898 Clarissa Ann Child
died in Prov. on March 22, 1898 (RI
Cemetery Database)
1899/00 Prov. Dir.
Isaac S. Battey, bds. 220 Friendship St.
1901 Prov. Dir. Isaac S.
Battey, bds. 179 Chesnut
1903/04 Isaac Battey
at Home for Aged Men
1904 - Isaac S. Battey died in
Cranston on August, 29, 1904, at age 86, yrs,
9 m, 28 days of senile dementia (RI Cemetery
Database)
SUMMARY