James F. Babcock scrapbook, 1854 June.

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James F. Babcock scrapbook, 1854 June.

A scrapbook with clippings of letters written by Babcock to the New Haven (Connecticut) Palladium, describing an excursion to Minnesota in which President Millard Fillmore participated.

1 v.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6707196

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Babcock, James F. (James Fairchild), 1809-1874

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James Woods Babcock, 1856-1922, was born in Chester, South Carolina. He graduated from Philips Academy, Exeter and received both his BA and MD from Harvard University. After working for five years at the McLean Asylum in Somerville, later Waverly, Massachusetts, he accepted the position of superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum in Columbia, SC. He resigned from that position in 1914 at which time he organized the Waverly Sanitarium in Columbia which he continued to direct until his death in ...

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

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Millard Fillmore was born in Cayuga County, N.Y. and later became a resident of East Aurora and Buffalo. He was a lawyer, local office holder, State Assemblyman, U.S. Congressman, N.Y. State Comptroller, Vice-President under Zachary Taylor and 13th U.S. President, 1850-1853. He was also involved in establishing numerous Buffalo institutions. He was a founder and first Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, Commander of the Union Continentals (Home Guard) during Civil War, and first president o...