BIOGRAPHIES:   Amos BABCOCK, Chetek, Barron County, WI

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Amos Babcock, manager of the Barron County Canning & Pickle Co., of which
he is also treasurer, was born in St. Croix County, this state, Oct. 4,
1875, son of George W. and Mary (Peabody) Babcock. He attended the graded
schools and the High School at Baldwin, Wis. At the age of sixteen he
started to learn the printer's trade and was thereafter employed for
several years, first as an assistant in country newspaper plants and later
for himself. He came to Barron County in 1886. He established the "Cameron
Review", at Cameron in 1896. In 1898 he sold out and went to Turtle Lake,
also in this county. There he started the Turtle Lake "Advance". He entered
the canning industry in 1908 and was superintendent of the Turtle Lake
factory until 1916, when he went to Minnesota, and that year won first
prize on peas and corn in the state contest. In 1917 he assumed the duties
of his present position as manager, and upon the re-organization of the
company in 1918 was made treasurer as well. He is a most capable manager.
He knows his business thoroughly, and he has the happy faculty of pleasing
the stockholders, the people from whom he buys products, the people who
work for him, the people to whom he sells his product, and the ultimate
consumer. Fraternally he is a popular member of the Knights of Pythias and
the Odd Fellows. He is also interested in the Community Club. In public
affairs he has likewise been active, and has served well as clerk of the
school board and as member of the city council. Mr. Babcock was married
Dec. 31, 1895, to Lola Whittemore, who was born in Princeton, Wis.,
daughter of L. F. and Minerva (Briggs) Whitemore, pioneers of Green Lake
County, and natives respectively of New York and Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs.
Babcock have had two children: Bessie Fay was born Jan. 13, 1897. Paul was
born Feb. 11, 1898, and died in infancy. The family faith is that of the
Protestant Episcopal Church.

 --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 531.