WI BIO - Dane Co - BABCOCK, Dalph L.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893. Vol I, p 268

Dalph L. BABCOCK, a farmer of Dane County, WI, was born in Madison County, 
NY, 10 Aug 1859, a son of Hamden R. and Adelia Donnet (BEBEE) BABCOCK, both 
born and reared in that county, where they still reside. The family are 
remarkable for their longevity, the paternal grandfather having lived to the 
age of 90 years, dying in 1891. The parents of our subject reared a family 
of three children, two daughters and one son. Nettie, the eldest daughter, 
is married, and resides in Attica [Wyoming County], NY; Lois is the wife of 
Professor LONGWORTHY, a professor of the Colgate University at Hamilton 
[Madison County], NY.

Dalph L., the only son, was reared on his father's farm, and was given a 
common school education, also attending the Colgate Academy and Colgate 
University. In 1880 he left NY and came West, locating in Albion Township, 
Dane County, WI, which he has made his permanent abode. Mr. BABCOCK has been 
a popular, progressive and successful farmer, and has in his charge 212 acres 
of the fertile loam so characteristic of his adopted township. He raises a 
variety of crops and also livestock. He is a believer in the McKinley high 
tariff, is Chairman of the township Board of Supervisors, and has been Side 
Supervisor for the past seven years in succession.

Dalph L. BABCOCK was married 01 Nov 1880, soon after his arrival in Albion 
Township, to one of its fairest daughters, Miss Martha L. LONGWORTHY, who was 
born and reared in this township, and was given a collegiate education at 
Albion, WI, and Rockford, Winnebago County, IL. To this union has been given 
one son, Harrold [Harold?] H., born 14 Nov 1884.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly