Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
A2020.030 |
Title |
Babcock Family fonds |
Object Name |
Fonds |
Year Range from |
1898 |
Year Range to |
2000 |
Collection |
Babcock Family fonds |
Scope & Content |
The fonds consists primarily of personal records of Roy and Frances Babcock and business records of J. H. Babcock & Sons and the Babcock Mill. Personal records include correspondence, receipts, income tax records, genealogical materials, and photographs. Business records include correspondence, patents, price lists, a collective agreement, financial statements and reports, quotations, employee timesheets, photographs, and digital images. Also present in the fonds are R.H. Wright Chair Company records, Odessa (Mill Creek) Women's Institute records, Ontario Grand Lodge and Independent Order of Odd Fellows publications, writings on the history of the Babcock Mill, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, and an 1898 Plan of the Village of Odessa. |
Description Note |
Roy Azel Babcock was born in Odessa to parents John H. Babcock (1865-1946) and Effie May Buck (1876-1966) on April 5th 1911. Roy married Frances Margaret Elizabeth Pringle (1909-1964) in 1934, a Napanee clerk and the daughter of Fred Pringle and Frances M. Brandon. Together Roy and Frances had three sons, Ross, Donald, and John. Roy later married Marjorie B. Hilderbrandt (1914-1983). Roy Babcock worked as a millwright at his family's mills in Odessa, and became one of the owners of John H. Babcock & Sons, a truck body manufacturing company in Odessa. Roy was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Prince Arthur Lodge No. 228. He served as Ernestown Public School Board Trustee 1949-1969, and was a member of the Lennox and Addington County Board of Education, 1969-1972. Roy Babcock died in Napanee on Nov. 5, 1983 and is buried at Wilton Cemetery. The Babcock Family owned and operated three mills in Odessa throughout the years, a planing mill (Babcock Mill), saw mill, and a woolen mill. The latter was originally built and operated by the Booths, later becoming the site of J. H. Babcock & Sons manufacturing facilities, producing baskets and truck bodies. |
Physical Description |
51 cm of textual, photographic, and graphic materials. |
Child Records |
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