George Sherman Batcheller

Batcheller was born in Batchellerville, a small community in the town of Edinburg, New York named for his grandfather.

[5] He "served in the 10th Army Corps as Deputy Provost Marshal General, Department of the South and participated in campaigns in Virginia and at Hilton Head and Charleston.

He then accepted an appointment from President Ulysses S. Grant as American Judge of the International Tribunal or "Mixed Courts" in Egypt.

While serving as judge, he was called upon by the U.S. State Department to serve as prosecuting attorney in the 1880 murder trial of Stephen Mirzan, an American citizen who was accused of the sensational murder of an attorney general for the Egyptian government in Alexandria, Egypt.

The trial was controversial in the press because an American citizen was tried before the U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire without benefit of a jury.

[2] Finally, in 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Batcheller a Justice of the International Court of Appeal in Alexandria.

The mausoleum, which resembles an ancient Egyptian mastaba tomb, was designed by the noted architect R. Newton Brezee.