Francis M. Babcock was born in Brookfield, Dec. 8, 1828, and was educated in the common schools in the Seventh Day settlement. A natural mechanic he became a carpenter and millwright and followed those avocations until about 1866; afterward he was a farmer. In 1871 he settled on the farm where his son Oliver C. now lives, where he died May 31, 1882. Jan. 1, 1854, he married Avilda Babcock, a native of Pennsylvania, who survives him. Their only child, Oliver C., married Flora A. Cook, of Forestville, N. Y., March 16, 1879, and settled on the homestead." (Reprinted from TOWN OF PERSIA, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FROM: "HISTORICAL GAZETTEER AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, edited by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published 1893)
Francis M. Babcock was born in Brookfield, Dec. 8, 1828, and was educated in the common schools in the Seventh Day settlement. A natural mechanic he became a carpenter and millwright and followed those avocations until about 1866; afterward he was a farmer. In 1871 he settled on the farm where his son Oliver C. now lives, where he died May 31, 1882. Jan. 1, 1854, he married Avilda Babcock, a native of Pennsylvania, who survives him. Their only child, Oliver C., married Flora A. Cook, of Forestville, N. Y., March 16, 1879, and settled on the homestead." (Reprinted from TOWN OF PERSIA, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FROM: "HISTORICAL GAZETTEER AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, edited by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published 1893)
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