Franklin County

BABCOCK, Joseph Weeks

Men of Vermont: an Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Pub. Co., 1894, Part III, Sons 
of Vermonters, p 10

Joseph Weeks BABCOCK, of Necedah [Juneau County], Wisconsin, was born 06 
March 1850 in Swanton Falls [Franklin County, Vermont]. He removed with his 
parents to Iowa in 1856, where he received a common school education. He is 
a grandson of the late Hon. Joseph WEEKS of Richmond [Cheshire County], New 
Hampshire, who was a member of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congress. 
He is by occupation a lumberman. He settled at Necedah [Juneau County, 
Wisconsin] in 1881, where he has since resided. He was elected to the 
Wisconsin Assembly in 1888, and served as chairman of the committee on 
incorporations, and was re-elected in 1890. He was elected to the 
Fifty-third Congress as a Republican.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly