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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 2/1/1913
Irenus A. Batt, 23 years old, son of
Mrs. Gertrude J. Batt of 346 Goundry
street, died at 6:30 o'clock last evening
at a sanitarium in Asheville, N. C.
On Tuesday of this week Batt was
removed to the southern resort in the
hope that he would regain his health,
He had been ill for a year but it was
not until about Christmas that his
condition kept him from being about.
Batt's life was terminated when he
appeared to have exceedingly bright
prospects ahead. He graduated in
mechanical engineering at the Cornell
University in 1910 with honors. He
was a member of Tau Beta Pi, the Cornell
honorary society for graduates
ot that institution. In 1906 Batt graduated
from the North Tonawanda
iligh School. At the commencement
exercises of his class he won the
Palmer prize for the best presentation.
He took the Cornell scholarship
examination at Lockport soon after
graduating from the local school and
was successful. He was taking a
postgraduate course in mechanical engineering
at the Westinghouse Airbrake
Company's plant at Pittsburgh,
Pa., when stricken with the disease
which ended his life.
He was secretary and treasurer of
the Batt Bros. Lumber Company, recently
organized in the Tonawandas.
Besides his mother he is survived
by two brothers, Norbert J. Batt of
Batavia and Raymond M. Batt of
North Tonawanda, and four sisters,
Mrs. Frances M. Nuwerand Mrs. Florence
M. Hankin of Buffalo and the
Misses Gertrude and Adelaide Batt
of North Tonawanda. The body will
arrive here tomorrow
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1889 - 1913 (~ 23 years)