Charles Babcock
BIRTH
12 Dec 1812
Utica, Oneida County, New York, USA
DEATH
22 Jul 1894 (aged 81)
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, USA
BURIAL
Oak Hill Cemetery
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, USA
PLOT
Section 2 Lot 40 Grave 1
MEMORIAL ID
33942557 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 1
FLOWERS 1
"Charles Babcock, who for many years was a leading business man of this city, died July 22, 1894, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. He was born December 10, 1812, in Utica, New York. He resided in Troy in the same state until he was twenty-two years old, and then he went south to Mobile, Alabama. For three years he was in business there. In 1839, with the first upward move of Evansville he came here, and began an active business career, which he continued the rest of his life. He was a member of the firm of Babcock Brothers, having three separate stores or departments—wholesale- groceries, wholesale hardware and wholesale queens ware. They were the first importers of the latter class of goods in this city.
On December 15, 1842, he was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Hopkins, who with seven children survive him.
Shortly after his arrival here in 1839, he was called upon to draw up papers to be placed in the corner-stone of old St. Paul's Episcopal church; and when the new structure of this denomination replaced the old one, a similar request was made of him, and again he cheerfully complied with the pleasing duty. He was vestryman and treasurer of this church for over thirty-five years, and a liberal contributor to all of its needs during his long lifetime."
Source: A History of Evansville and Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Joseph Peter Elliott Evansville, Indiana. 1897.