- DR. DANIEL C. BABCOCK was born in New York state in 1818,
and graduated first from the
- Castleton, Vt., Medical College and then from one of the
New York city medical colleges in 1842, coming west and settling
at Johnstown, Rock county, in 1843, thus being one of the first
physicians to engage in the practice of medicine in southern
Wisconsin. A few years later Dr. BABCOCK removed to Milton, Rock
county, from which district he was elected to the state legislative
assembly in 1847 and 1848.
- The exposure incident to country practice impaired his health
and he died in California of
- consumption in 1875.
- Dr. BABCOCK's only daughter is the wife of Dr. Albert S.
MAXSON, Milton Junction, Rock
- county, Wis.
-
- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. I"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, p. 467.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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