Windsor County

BABCOCK, Volney Chauncey

Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical 
Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other 
States. Dodge. Burlington, Ullery, 1912, p 105

Volney Chauncey BABCOCK, Stowe [Lamoille County, Vermont], farmer, was born 
14 May 1833 at Bridgewater [Windsor County, Vermont], son of Chauncey and 
Sally (BARROWS) BABCOCK. Educated in the public schools. Followed farming 
until twenty-one years of age; then employed at wheelwright and cabinet work; 
Postmaster in Bridgewater, 1880-1896; also carried on mercantile and 
wheelwright business. Enlisted in Company E, Thirteenth Vermont Regiment 
Volunteer Infantry; mustered into service October 1862; owing to illness did 
not leave the state; was in hospital at Brattleboro eight weeks; discharged by 
reason of disability. Republican. Represented Bridgewater in the 
Legislature, 1900. 

In 1855 Volney Chauncey BABCOCK [first] married [Miss?] Harriet E. BARROWS of 
Stowe; they had one daughter, Mary A. On 20 March 1902 he married [second] 
Carrie M. ROBINSON [a maiden name?] of Stowe. On 12 May 1910 he married 
[Miss?] Abbie M. MINOR, of Woodbury [Washington County, Vermont]. In 
religious preference is Methodist. Is a member of H. H. Smith Post No. 19, 
G. A. R.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly