Samuel Zane Batten (August 10, 1859–June 5, 1925)[1] was a Baptist minister and educator.
[2] Batten graduated from Bucknell University in 1885, and served as a Baptist minister in Morristown, New Jersey, where he preached against alcohol consumption and gambling.
[4] In 1908, he established the Commission on Social Service of the American Baptist Association.
[5] In 1913, he joined the faculty of what would become the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice.
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