[1] He attended the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, as did his older brother, chemist Harry David Batchelor (class of 1903).

[4][5] Batchelor also served as a cadet in the college's Reserve Officers' Training Corps Battalion,[6][7] and was student manager of the 1906 New Hampshire football team.

[10] Batchelor taught horticulture at Cornell University from 1907 to 1910 and resigned to teach at Utah Agricultural College.

[11][1][12][13][14][15] In 1915, he joined the University of California Citrus Experiment Station as an Associate Professor of Plant Breeding.

[16] He was named by the state director of agriculture in 1940 as the seventh member of the California Walnut Control Board.