From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 216.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


HENRY MILTON BABCOCK

Henry Milton Babcock, of Wheeling, has been connected with the iron 
industry of the old city for many years, and enjoys the distinction 
of being the oldest nail factory manager in this vicinity.  Mr. 
Babcock was born at Taunton, Mass., April 28, 1834, the son of Milton 
Babcock, a native of Attleborogh, Mass., and his wife, Lydia Bowen, 
of the same place.  The father is now a resident of New Bedford, 
Mass., but the mother is deceased.  Mr. Babcock first became 
connected with the iron industry in 1849, when he became an employe 
of the Parker mills iron and nail works, at Wareham, Mass., and 
learned the trade of nailer.  He was in the employment of the same 
company at Providence, R.I., until 1867, when he removed to Wheeling, 
and entered the Riverside Iron works.  Two years later he was 
selected by O. C. Dewey, general manager of the nail department, and 
from that date, now a period of twenty-one years, he has filled that 
position with rare fidelity and efficiency.  Mr. Babcock was married 
in 1856, to Marietta S. King, of Massachusetts, who died at Wheeling, 
in 1881.  In the following year he was united to Susan Fisher, of 
Wheeling, and to this union five children have been born, of whom 
three survive.  He and wife are members of the North Street Methodist 
Episcopal church.
 

(Linda Fluharty)