File:Charles Heisler Bateman (1861-1934) obituary in The Morning Call of Paterson, New Jersey on 26 March 1934.jpg

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Charles H. Bateman, Dies After Operation. Somerset Publisher Former Legislative Correspondent for The Call. Somerville, New Jersey; March 25, 1934 (Associated Press) Charles Heisler Bateman, seventy-two, publisher and banker, died late today in Somerset hospital, where he underwent an operation for internal complications Friday. He was president of the Somerset Press, Inc., publishers of the Messenger-Gazette, and was editor and general manager of the newspaper. He was also president of the Somerville Savings bank, president and a member of the local board of education for twenty years, and a member of the board of directors of Annandale reformatory. Bateman was born in Pennington, attended Pennington seminary and was graduated from Princeton university in 1886. He got his first newspaper experience as a reporter of the Trenton State Gazette, worked later on the Trenton Times, to and for four years was city editor of the Trenton True American. From 1887 to 1908 he was legislative correspondent for the New York Evening Post, the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, The Paterson Call and the Associated Press. He came to Somerville in 1891 and acquired a financial interest in the unionist Gazette, of which he was he editor and manager, when the paper merged in 1930 with the Messenger and the Democrat. The publication Messenger-Gazette. Bateman was one of the original of members of the state civil service commission, to which he was appointed in 1908. He served one year as president. His second wife and two children, C. Palmer Bateman, of Somerville, and Mrs. Carl E. Purinton, of West Hempstead, Long Island, survive. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.

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