Rufus Babcock

Rufus Babcock
Rufus Babcock
2nd President of Colby College
	In office; 1833–1836
Preceded by	Jeremiah Chaplin
Succeeded by	Robert Everett Pattison
Personal details
Born	September 18, 1798; North Colebrook, CT
Died	May 4, 1875 (aged 76); Salem, ME
Alma mater	Brown University
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Rev. Rufus T. Babcock (September 18, 1798 – May 4, 1875) was an American clergyman and the second president of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Life

Babcock was born at North Colebrook, Connecticut. He graduated Brown University in 1821, and was a tutor for two years at Columbian College in Washington, D. C. In 1823 he was ordained pastor of the Baptist church at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; in 1826 he became pastor in Salem, Mass.; and in 1833 he was elected as the second president Waterville College (now Colby College) in Waterville, Maine.[1]

At the time, the college was in debt $18,000 and could not meet more than three-fifths of its current expenses. Champlin Hall was erected in 1836. The value of the College property was $50,000.[2]

He resigned in 1836, and accepted the pastorate of the Spruce street Baptist church in Philadelphia, whence he returned after three years to his first charge at Poughkeepsie. He was subsequently pastor of a church in Paterson, N. J., and has held successively the offices of secretary of the American and foreign Bible society, of the American Sunday school union, and of the Pennsylvania colonization society. He edited for five years the "Baptist Memorial." He received a DD from Bowdoin College in 1834. He was the President of the American Baptist Publication Society for many years.[3] He died in Salem, MA.[4]

Publications

Memoir of Andrew Fuller (1830)
History of Waterville College (1836)
Tales of Truth for the Young (1837)
The Emigrant's Mother (1859)
Memoirs of John M. Peck (1862)

References

"Rufus T. Babcock", The American Cyclopaedia, by George Ripley And Charles A. Dana; D. Appleton And Company, 1873
The Centennial History of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine. June 23d, 1902, Waterville: Executive Committee of the Centennial Celebration, 1902.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19200625&id=W2QgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZWYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2662,7676447
The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans, edited by Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown, published by the Biographical Society, 1904.

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[1] "Rufus T. Babcock", The American Cyclopaedia, by George Ripley And Charles A. Dana; D. Appleton And Company, 1873

[2] The Centennial History of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine. June 23d, 1902, Waterville: Executive Committee of the Centennial Celebration, 1902.

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[4] The twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans, edited by Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown, published by the Biographical Society, 1904.