Birney C. (Birney Clark) Batcheller

Birney C. Batcheller, listed in library records as Birney Clark Batcheller (1865–1950), is a lightly documented American author whose surviving work shows two clear interests: technology and genealogy. Project Gutenberg credits him with The Pneumatic Despatch Tube System of the Batcheller Pneumatic Tube Co., a book that explores the workings and promise of pneumatic dispatch systems.

He is also credited as the compiler of People of Wallingford, a compilation, published in 1937, a substantial history and genealogy of Wallingford, Vermont. That later work suggests a patient researcher with a strong interest in community memory and family records.

Reliable online biographical details about his personal life appear to be scarce, so the picture that emerges is mainly through his books: an author connected with late-19th- and early-20th-century practical invention on one hand, and careful local historical preservation on the other.