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DR. E. R. BABCOCK is a physician and surgeon in the village of Rochester, and was born in Lewis county, New York, March 21, 1826, the son of Job and Sarah (Williams) Babcock.

His father was a farmer on the banks of St. Lawrence river till his death in 1834. His mother died in Michigan, 1862. Dr. B. was educated in the common schools of his native county, and at the academy there. At the age of twenty-four, he began his study of medicine under Dr. Bruster, of Jefferson county, New York, and in 1851 attended the State University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and for some years practiced medicine in New York; and then graduated at Burlington University, in Vermont, 1861. In 1863, he came to Sangamon, and soon was placed in charge of Post Hospital at Camp Yates, near Springfield, as surgeon, eighteen months, when he resigned (January 1, 1865), and accepted an appointment on the Board of Examining Surgeons for the Eighth District of the State, which he held till the close of the late war. He spent the summer of 1866 in the East, and returned in the fall to the village of Rochester, where he has continued the practice of Medicine to the present time. He was married in 1857 to Martha Bruster, who was born in New York, the daughter of Dr. Bruster, his former preceptor, and has had two children: O. B., who was born March 26, 1857, in Jefferson county, New York, and married to Emma Merriam, also born in Jefferson county, New York, but at the time of marriage resided in Romeo, Michigan. Young Dr. O. B. Babcock graduated in the study of medicine, and is now practicing with his father. A younger son, born September 2, 1872, died March 1, 1873.