BIOGRAPHIES:  Charles BABCOCK, Dallas Township, Barron County, WI

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Charles Babcock, an early settler in Dallas Township, Barron County, where
he developed a farm, was born in New York State, Feb. 21, 1840. He served
nine months in the Civil War, enlisting in 1861. He was discharged on
account of sickness contracted in the service, from which he never fully
recovered, and which was finally the cause of his death 36 years later at
Dallas, Wis., in December, 1897. In Pennsylvania, in 1862, he was married
to Charlotte Walker, who was born Oct. 12, 1839, and who is still living in
Barron County. Emigrating to Nebraska, they rented a farm there and
remained two years, but his crops being destroyed by grasshoppers, Mr.
Babcock became discouraged with trying to make a living in that state, and
came to Wisconsin, for five years renting a farm in Eau Claire County. In
1873 he moved with his family to Dallas Township, Barron County,
homesteading 160 acres of wild land without buildings in section 8. The
nearest trading point was Eau Claire, 50 miles to the southeast, the trip
to which place he made for a number of years with an ox team. His first
residence on his farm was a log house, but later as he prospered he erected
good buildings. He aided in the agricultural development of this county and
was a useful citizen respected in the community. He achieved a fair measure
of success and rendered public service as a member of the school board of
his district, in politics being a Democrat. He and his wife were First Day
Adventists. They had seven children: Levant A., now living in Moosejaw,
Canada; Jessie J., wife of A. Pecore of Dallas, Wis.; Jennie (twin sister
of Jessie), who died in infancy in Pennsylvania; Zilphia G., now Mrs. E. E.
Tabor of Weyerhauser, Wis.; Theddie J., residing in Endicott, Wash.; Ernest
V., now clerk of the circuit court of Barron County, and Charles B., who
resided for a time at Edmonton, Canada, and returned to Dallas in July,
1921.

--Taken  from:  History  of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co.,
1922, pg. 482.