Title: Stephen M. Babcock Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1814-1931

Creator:

• Babcock, S. M. (Stephen Moulton), 1843-1931

Call Number: Wis Mss HG; File 1894 December 27 Oversize; Audio 1181A; PH 629

Quantity: 5.3 cubic feet (13 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder), 1 tape recording, and 9 photographs (1 folder)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Stephen Moulton Babcock, a University of Wisconsin professor and inventor of the Babcock milk fat content test, consisting of personal correspondence, account books, 1866-1926, Cornell University classbooks, brief and irregular diary entries for the years 1852-1882, memorandum books, 1906 lectures on dairy chemistry to the four-year agricultural students, a diploma of honorable mention from the Board of Lady Managers, the Columbian Exposition, December 27, 1894, a recipe book of May C. Babcock, and the recorded sound track from U.S. Department of Agriculture Motion Picture Service film 161-T-B interviewing Babcock about his milk testing apparatus. The letters consist of early family correspondence of Stephen Babcock's father, Peleg B. Babcock, Bridgewater, New York, concerning his agricultural and dairy pursuits and political interests; letters from Babcock's classmates at Tufts College, Cornell, and Göttingen, Germany; some correspondence concerning chemical analyses and experimental dairy work; correspondence with his fiancee and wife, May Crandall, of Winfield, New York; letters of friends and relatives of both the Babcock and Crandall families; requests for autographs; letters from organizations and individuals soliciting funds; and letters from faculty colleagues and fellow scientists.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000hg

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Acquisition Information

Presented by the Babcock Estate; lecture notes in Box 9 presented by Gustavus Henry Benkendorf, Modesto, California, October 1, 1943; and additional items by W.H. Lighty, July 10, 1931. Recording found in vault, 1987.

Wis Mss HG	Correspondence, 1814-1931
Box   1	1814-1869
Box   2	1870-1885
Box   3	1886-1896 September
Box   4	1896 October-1899
Box   5	1900-1909
Box   6	1910-1922
Box   7	1923-1928 May
Box   8	1928 June-1930 October
Box   9	1930 November-1931 July
Box   9	Notes on Babcock's U.W. lectures on dairy chemistry (taken by G.H. Benkendorf), 1906 February 20-June 5 Physical Description: 1 folder
Box   9	Notes on Babcock's U.W. lectures on dairy chemistry (taken by unknown student), 1906 February 20-May 29 Physical Description: 1 folder
Box   10	Memoranda and account books, 1866-1926 Physical Description: 32 volumes
Box   11	Diaries, 1852-1862 Physical Description: 12 volumes
Box   11	Cornell University Class Books, 1875-1881 Physical Description: 8 volumes
Box   11	May C. Babcock recipe book
Box   12-13	Invitations
File 1894 Dec. 27 Oversize	Diploma of honorable mention to Babcock from the Board of Lady Managers, The Columbian Exposition, 1894 Dec. 27
Audio 1181A	Sound track from USDA film 161-T-B interviewing Babcock about his milk testing apparatus
PH 629 Folder   1	Stephen Babcock garden photographs, circa 1925