Summary Information

Title: Joseph Weeks Babcock Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1864-1922

Creator:

• Babcock, J.W. (Joseph Weeks), 1850-1909

Call Number: Wis Mss KP; PH 2595

Quantity: 1.7 cubic feet (4 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and 28 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:

Family papers of Joseph Babcock, a lumberman and politician of Necedah, Wisconsin, consisting of family correspondence to and from Babcock; Mary F., his wife; Charles Ebenezer, their son, also a prominent businessman of Necedah; and Eva F., Charles' wife. J.W. Babcock's correspondence also consists of letters to Richard Goodell, a Republican from Platteville, while Babcock served as the Republican U.S. Representative from Wisconsin's Third District. Topics focus on the help Babcock requested from Goodell while politics required him to stay in D.C. during his re-election campaign and Goodell's search for legal work after passing the bar exam. There are also reminiscences of the elder Babcock written by Barney, a volume containing data on Third District Republican conventions, and several ledgers and cash books pertaining to a real estate venture of Charles Babcock and Harry Barney. Photographs include portraits of family, friends, and associates of Babcock, circa 1880-1890.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000kp

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