University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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CEOnCE CORDON BATTLE.

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(Htnrqc (Hortlon battle AS born at the Cool Spring Plantation, Edgecombe County. N. C. on the 28th of October. 1868. He is the son of Turner W. and Lavinia Daniel Battle, both of North Carolina. His mother was the daughter of Joseph J. Daniel, who was for many years a Judge, first of the Circuit and afterward of the Supreme Court, and who sat on the bench of the latter court with Judges Thomas Ruffin and William Gaston. The Hon. William H. Battle was also a Justice of the Supreme Court for many years and was his near relative. He attended the University of North Carolina, entering the Sophomore Class in 1881, and while at the University entered the Lambda Chapter of the Phi Kappa Sigma, which was at that time in existence sub rosa at the University of North Carolina. He left the University of North Carolina in 1882, having remained there a year and a half. In 1886 he entered the University of Virginia, from which

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institution he was graduated with the degree of Master of Arts in 1889. While at the University of Virginia he also attended the lectures of the Law School, under the direction of John B. Minor. While at the University of Virginia he was a member of the Eta Chapter of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. In 1890 he entered Columbia Law School, where he attended the lectures for one session. During the years 1890 and 1891 he was the Editor of the Phi Kappa Sigma Quarterly, the organ of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and has always been a regular attendant at its annual conventions. In the year 1892 he was appointed Assistant District Attorney by the then District Attorney of New York, the Hon. DeLancey Nicoll, in which office he still continues. The special branch of work assigned to him consists in the preparation and presentation of charges to the Grand Jury of the County and of the drawing of the indictments found by the Grand Jury, together with the preparation and management of cases of International Extradition and Inter- state Rendition. He has also taken some part in the trial of cases and in the argument of appeals. He is the Secretary of the New York Southern Society, a member of the New York Bar Association, the Seventh Regiment, the Seventh Regiment Veteran Club, the Democratic Club, the Seneca Club and the Knickerbocker Whist Club. He is also the Secretary of the General Committee of Tammany Hall for the Eleventh Assembly District.