Peter H. Bateson
fl. 1860s–70s
American printer and publisher. Director and printer of the Index, published in Toledo, Ohio. In 1870, founding partner, Bateson & Manor publishing company, publishers of a weekly newspaper, the Toledo Journal. Retired in 1873. Probably Peter H. Bateson, a Toledo lawyer (1836–81).
Sources
Abbot 1873
Scribner 1910
United States Federal Census 1870 (Waterton, De Kalb, Indiana [1]/21) (Ancestry.com, accessed 24 October 2022)
U.S., Find a grave index, 1600s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 24 October 2022)
Bibliography
Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. 1873. The inside history of the Index Association. A report on the recent “Index troubles” made to the stockholders of the Index Association, at their second annual meeting in Toledo, Ohio, June 7, 1873. Cambridge, Mass.: Press of John Wilson & Son.
Scribner, Harvey, ed. 1910. Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo. 2 vols. Madison, Wisconsin: Western Historical Association.
