Born in Austinburgh, Ashtabula County, Ohio, August 7, 1824, and is the son of David and Eunice (Curtis) Babbitt.
Having been taken by his parents to Saybrook, in the same county, he there resided until 1837, in the spring of which year he accompanied his parents to Naperville, Du Page County, Illinois, where he lost his mother, after whose death he concluded to come to California.
Traveling by way of the plains he reached Hangtown, where he engaged in mining for a year, then returned to Illinois, purchased his father's farm and that adjoining, which renting he established himself in business in Algonquin, McHenry County, in the same
State, and during the Rebellion served as United States Marshal there.
He now added the lumber trade to his other affairs, and followed it until 1869, when he moved to Elgin, Kane County; but in November, 1874, once more came to California, bringing his wife and family with him.
Locating in Oakland, he established himself as a wholesale commission merchant, the senior partner in the firm of Babbitt, Manuel & Gilpin, at NO. 471 Eleventh Street. Mr. Babbitt was elected to the City Council of Oakland for the Second Ward, in March, 1883.
Married, in Naperville, to Miss Lucinda Balch, and has two children, viz.: Mary (now Mrs. Z. T. Gilpin), and Hattie (now Mrs. E W Owens). All survive him.
After a long and successful life Mr. Babbitt, capitalist, politician and pioneer, injured himself with suicidal intent and died.
For the past three years he had been in failing health. During this period he had been very despondent and had frequently expressed a desire to die. He was closely watched by an attendant, he eluded his keeper and went to an attic-room.
After placing a line attached to a beam around his neck, he plunged a carving-knife into his abdomen. The wound was necessarily fatal and after languishing eighteen hours he died.
Mr. Babbitt resided with his family in a handsome home on Webster street. Since his attacks of melancholia commenced he was never left alone...
Tbree physicians were summoned, and they at once pronounced the wound fatal. Even had Mr. Babbitt been a young man he could not possibly have rallied, as the sharp point of the knife had penetrated several organs.
Babbitt was a man who was very fond of his home, was well fixed financially, and had no reason for ending bis life.
Having been taken by his parents to Saybrook, in the same county, he there resided until 1837, in the spring of which year he accompanied his parents to Naperville, Du Page County, Illinois, where he lost his mother, after whose death he concluded to come to California.
Traveling by way of the plains he reached Hangtown, where he engaged in mining for a year, then returned to Illinois, purchased his father's farm and that adjoining, which renting he established himself in business in Algonquin, McHenry County, in the same
State, and during the Rebellion served as United States Marshal there.
He now added the lumber trade to his other affairs, and followed it until 1869, when he moved to Elgin, Kane County; but in November, 1874, once more came to California, bringing his wife and family with him.
Locating in Oakland, he established himself as a wholesale commission merchant, the senior partner in the firm of Babbitt, Manuel & Gilpin, at NO. 471 Eleventh Street. Mr. Babbitt was elected to the City Council of Oakland for the Second Ward, in March, 1883.
Married, in Naperville, to Miss Lucinda Balch, and has two children, viz.: Mary (now Mrs. Z. T. Gilpin), and Hattie (now Mrs. E W Owens). All survive him.
After a long and successful life Mr. Babbitt, capitalist, politician and pioneer, injured himself with suicidal intent and died.
For the past three years he had been in failing health. During this period he had been very despondent and had frequently expressed a desire to die. He was closely watched by an attendant, he eluded his keeper and went to an attic-room.
After placing a line attached to a beam around his neck, he plunged a carving-knife into his abdomen. The wound was necessarily fatal and after languishing eighteen hours he died.
Mr. Babbitt resided with his family in a handsome home on Webster street. Since his attacks of melancholia commenced he was never left alone...
Tbree physicians were summoned, and they at once pronounced the wound fatal. Even had Mr. Babbitt been a young man he could not possibly have rallied, as the sharp point of the knife had penetrated several organs.
Babbitt was a man who was very fond of his home, was well fixed financially, and had no reason for ending bis life.
Born in Austinburgh, Ashtabula County, Ohio, August 7, 1824, and is the son of David and Eunice (Curtis) Babbitt.
Having been taken by his parents to Saybrook, in the same county, he there resided until 1837, in the spring of which year he accompanied his parents to Naperville, Du Page County, Illinois, where he lost his mother, after whose death he concluded to come to California.
Traveling by way of the plains he reached Hangtown, where he engaged in mining for a year, then returned to Illinois, purchased his father's farm and that adjoining, which renting he established himself in business in Algonquin, McHenry County, in the same
State, and during the Rebellion served as United States Marshal there.
He now added the lumber trade to his other affairs, and followed it until 1869, when he moved to Elgin, Kane County; but in November, 1874, once more came to California, bringing his wife and family with him.
Locating in Oakland, he established himself as a wholesale commission merchant, the senior partner in the firm of Babbitt, Manuel & Gilpin, at NO. 471 Eleventh Street. Mr. Babbitt was elected to the City Council of Oakland for the Second Ward, in March, 1883.
Married, in Naperville, to Miss Lucinda Balch, and has two children, viz.: Mary (now Mrs. Z. T. Gilpin), and Hattie (now Mrs. E W Owens). All survive him.
After a long and successful life Mr. Babbitt, capitalist, politician and pioneer, injured himself with suicidal intent and died.
For the past three years he had been in failing health. During this period he had been very despondent and had frequently expressed a desire to die. He was closely watched by an attendant, he eluded his keeper and went to an attic-room.
After placing a line attached to a beam around his neck, he plunged a carving-knife into his abdomen. The wound was necessarily fatal and after languishing eighteen hours he died.
Mr. Babbitt resided with his family in a handsome home on Webster street. Since his attacks of melancholia commenced he was never left alone...
Tbree physicians were summoned, and they at once pronounced the wound fatal. Even had Mr. Babbitt been a young man he could not possibly have rallied, as the sharp point of the knife had penetrated several organs.
Babbitt was a man who was very fond of his home, was well fixed financially, and had no reason for ending bis life.
Having been taken by his parents to Saybrook, in the same county, he there resided until 1837, in the spring of which year he accompanied his parents to Naperville, Du Page County, Illinois, where he lost his mother, after whose death he concluded to come to California.
Traveling by way of the plains he reached Hangtown, where he engaged in mining for a year, then returned to Illinois, purchased his father's farm and that adjoining, which renting he established himself in business in Algonquin, McHenry County, in the same
State, and during the Rebellion served as United States Marshal there.
He now added the lumber trade to his other affairs, and followed it until 1869, when he moved to Elgin, Kane County; but in November, 1874, once more came to California, bringing his wife and family with him.
Locating in Oakland, he established himself as a wholesale commission merchant, the senior partner in the firm of Babbitt, Manuel & Gilpin, at NO. 471 Eleventh Street. Mr. Babbitt was elected to the City Council of Oakland for the Second Ward, in March, 1883.
Married, in Naperville, to Miss Lucinda Balch, and has two children, viz.: Mary (now Mrs. Z. T. Gilpin), and Hattie (now Mrs. E W Owens). All survive him.
After a long and successful life Mr. Babbitt, capitalist, politician and pioneer, injured himself with suicidal intent and died.
For the past three years he had been in failing health. During this period he had been very despondent and had frequently expressed a desire to die. He was closely watched by an attendant, he eluded his keeper and went to an attic-room.
After placing a line attached to a beam around his neck, he plunged a carving-knife into his abdomen. The wound was necessarily fatal and after languishing eighteen hours he died.
Mr. Babbitt resided with his family in a handsome home on Webster street. Since his attacks of melancholia commenced he was never left alone...
Tbree physicians were summoned, and they at once pronounced the wound fatal. Even had Mr. Babbitt been a young man he could not possibly have rallied, as the sharp point of the knife had penetrated several organs.
Babbitt was a man who was very fond of his home, was well fixed financially, and had no reason for ending bis life.
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