Francis Augustus Batie

Francis Augustus Batie

Talented Norwich Musician, Winning Success as Singer

Utica Saturday Globe, November 1900

 

Francis Augustus Batie

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  The Globe takes much pleasure in presenting its thousands of Norwich readers with the reproduction of a recent photograph of Francis A. Batie, who has scored success as a tenor singer.  Mr. Batie was born in Norwich October 9, 1880, and so has just passed out of his teens, but has sung before many audiences to whom his rich, melodious voice has uniformly given pleasure.  While a boy he began taking piano lessons with Miss Maggie Foy and later received vocal instruction from Mrs. Sophia Tefft.  Five or six years ago he first joined a traveling company with which he won great favor.  Last fall he engaged with another company whose season was interrupted by the excitement of a Presidential election and he is now stopping temporarily in Scranton, Pa.