The Ellen G. White Letters and Manuscripts: Volume 1

BACHELLER, John Warren (1839-1917) and Arvilla M. (1837-1911)

In 1852 James White invited Cynthia Bacheller, a widow from Vermont, together with her two teenage children, Warren and Roxanna, to stay with the Whites in Rochester, New York. Warren (known by his middle name) and Roxanna were employed at the Review and Herald publishing office. For Warren Bacheller it was the beginning of his lifework as printer at the Review and Herald, first in Rochester and later in Battle Creek, Michigan, where the press moved in 1855. He married Arvilla Lane in 1862. From 1869 to 1870 he also served as treasurer of the Michigan Conference. 1EGWLM 785.1

Ellen White had occasion to counsel Warren Bacheller in 1859 about his shortcomings as a worker at the press. In 1872 she noted that he had “been growing cold and careless in regard to your own salvation.” However, after the revivals of 1888 and in the years following, she enthused that he had “met with a new conversion.” “Brother Warren reveals the blessing of God in his face, for it looks as if the Sun of Righteousness was beaming upon him.” 1EGWLM 785.2

See: Obituary: “John Warren Bacheller,” Review, Oct. 25, 1917, p. 18; obituary: “Mrs. J. W. Bacheller,” Lake Union Herald, May 24, 1911, p. 6; Frederick Clifton Pierce, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy (Chicago: W. B. Conkey, 1898), pp. 577, 578; 1900 U.S. Federal Census, “Arvilla M. Batchelor [sic],” Michigan, Calhoun County, Michigan, p. 165A; Wm. C. Gage, “Michigan State Conference: Ninth Annual Session,” Review, May 25, 1869, p. 173; Ellen G. White, Testimony to the Church at Battle Creek (PH123) (Battle Creek, Mich.: Steam Press, 1872), p. 31; Lt 83, 1889 (Jan. 5); Lt 30, 1890 (Mar. 10). 1EGWLM 785.3