Multnomah-Clackamas County OR Archives Biographies.....Babcock, Charles A. 1880 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 390 - 391
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     CHARLES A. BABCOCK, president and manager of the C. A. Babcock Company, 
of Portland, has long been identified with the milling and feed business and 
the substantial success which has come to him is the legitimate outcome of his 
earnest and persistent efforts along well directed lines. Mr. Babcock was born 
in Oregon City, Oregon, in 1880, and is a son of Charles C. and Hattie L. 
(McCarver) Babcock. His paternal grandfather, Christopher Columbus Babcock, 
was born in New York state, served in the Union army during the Civil war, and 
in 1872, having retired from active business, brought his family to Oregon, 
living in Oregon City, until his death. Charles C. Babcock is deceased, and is 
survived by his widow, who still lives in Oregon City. The maternal great-
grandfather, Mortimer M. McCarver, was a pioneer of the Pacific northwest and 
was the founder of Tacoma, Washington. He was the father of Jennings McCarver, 
father of Mrs. Hattie Babcock, who became prominent in the affairs of 
Clackamas county, of which he was sheriff at one time. His daughter, Mrs. 
Babcock, was born in Oregon City, Oregon.

     Charles A. Babcock received a good public school education, which he 
supplemented by a course in Armstrong's Business College, in Portland. He then 
entered the employ of R. Palitzsch & Company, who had established a feed 
business here in 1900. They were first located on Front street, later moving 
to Albina and Railroad streets, and in 1908 they built the present feed mill 
at 480 Railroad street. On March 1, 1918, Mr. Babcock bought the mill and 
business, which he has since conducted under the name of the C. A. Babcock 
Company. The original mill was one hundred by one hundred feet, but has since 
been enlarged and is now one and three stories high and one hundred by two 
hundred feet in size. The company is engaged in the manufacture of poultry, 
dairy and stock feed and the mill has a capacity of one hundred tons of feed 
each day of two eight-hour shifts. From thirty to forty men are employed, and 
the products of the mill are sold only to dealers throughout southwestern 
Washington and that part of western Oregon tributary to Portland. The mill 
products are sold under the brands of "Daisy Dairy Feed," "Shady Brook Dairy 
Feed," "Tiptop Scratch Feed," "Red Wing Egg Mash" and "Babcock's Best Poultry 
Feeds of all kinds." The firm does a monthly business of over one hundred 
thousand dollars, the sales for 1927 having run over one and a quarter million 
dollars, so that the C. A. Babcock Company is now recognized as one of the 
leading concerns in its line in this section of the country. He is also one of 
the owners of the Sunnyside Alfalfa Milling Company.

     In 1904 Mr. Babcock was united in marriage to Miss Alberta Fouts, of The 
Dalles, Oregon, and they are the parents of two children, Harriet and Blair. 
In his political views Mr. Babcock is a strong republican and, though a busy 
man, devotes a due share of his attention to matters affecting the welfare and 
progress of his city and county. He is a member of Roosevelt Lodge, No. 187, 
A. F. & A. M.; Oregon Consistory, No. 1, A. A. S. R.; Al Kader Temple, A. A. 
O. N. M. S.; and the Chamber of Commerce. He is regarded as a good business 
man, of sound and duly conservative judgment, is a dependable citizen and a 
constant and loyal friend and neighbor, and throughout the circle of his 
acquaintance is held in high regard.

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