Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Babcock, Stephen E. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Babcock,Stephen E., Little Falls, civil engineer, is a native of Troy, N.Y., 
and has spent all of his adult years in his profession, being known from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific as one of the greatest hydraulic engineers of the 
Union.  He has been in Little Falls seven years and has constructed water-
works for Amsterdam, N.Y., Johnstown, N.Y., Gloversville, Troy, Greenwich, 
Ticonderoga, etc., as well as for Little Falls and other places.  He is now 
engineer of the Little Falls Water works and engineer of the Glens falls sewer 
system, twenty-five miles, now being constructed, and is considered an expert 
in all departments of his professions.  He is also well known in social 
circles over a wide extent of country, and is a prominent Mason, a member of 
Apollo Commandry, No. 15, Troy, a Knight Templar, a member of the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers, Engineers' Club, New York city, vice-
president of the American Water Works Association and Fellow of the American 
Geographical Society, as also patentee of several valuable devices for 
improved sewerage.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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