Babcock, Edward A. (1841-1891)

BABCOCK

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Date: 10/2/2019 at 22:22:31

Edward A. Babcock
Sep 10, 1841 - 1891

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.132, Knox Twp.)
E. A. Babcock, Lawyer, Avoca, born in Huntington, Hampshire Co., Mass., Sept. 10, 1841. His parents moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y., when he was a few months old; parents are both dead; father buried in Hampshire County, aged fifty-seven; mother in Oneida County, N. Y., aged forty-two. Subject was Principal of the Schoharie Academy for a short time; taught school near Buffalo, N. Y.; graduated at Hamilton College, Oneida County, in 1865, went to New Boston, Ill., September 16, 1866, taught school until November 28, 1866, when he moved to Muscatine, this State, November 30, 1866, went to Davenport, this State, in a few days; taught one term of school in Scott County, when he started for Omaha, April 3, 1867, thence to this county; taught one term near Council Bluffs, and two tenns in Shelby County. Subject is a Democrat; was elected Assessor October, 1869, and was married to Augusta Burmister December 25, 1879. They have had only one child, which died soon after its birth. Subject came to Avoca July 2, 1869, and now has a large practice.