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In Memory Of Judge Babbitt

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
July
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

IN MEMORY OF JUDGE BABBITT

Beautiful Oil Painting Unveiled Friday Afternoon

GIFT OF THE FAMILY

To the Office of the Probate Court, Over Which the Late Judge Presided for Eight Years

A beautiful oil painting of the late Judge J. W. Babbitt, presented to the Probate Court office by the family of the Judge, was unveiled Friday last, this being the 100th anniversary of the birth of his father. There was a large number of Ypsilanti attorneys and members of the local bar present.

The reunion was attended by the following descendants of Judge Babbitt: Charles Winthrop Babbitt, of Jackson, railroad man, and George Wallace Babbitt, of St. Thomas, Ont., sons of the deceased; his grandchildren - Mrs. Frank Newark and John C. Babbitt, of Jackson, the children of Charles Wallace B Abbitt, who are Kittie Babbitt, Louise Babbitt and Ralph Babbitt; the children of the late Judge J. Willard Babbitt - Miss Nora Babbitt, of Dundee, Mrs. Eugene B. Bennett, of Hartford, Miss Nan Babbitt, of Kearney, Neb., and Mrs. M. I. Perrine, of Holley; grandchildren - Eugene B. Bennet, jr., the sone of Mrs. Eugene Bennett, and Babbitt Perrine, the son of Mrs. M. I. Perrine.

John Winthrop Babbitt, whose 100th birthday was the direct occasion of the gathering, was born in Danville, Va., in 1802. He graduated from the Burlington. Va., medical college when 24 years of age, and removed to Gorham, N. Y., to practice his profession. In 1834 he married Philinda Walker, of Gorham, and four years later came to Ypsilanti, where he resided the remainder of his life. He died at the age of 90 years.

The portrait is the work of Miss Hilda Lodeman, the talented portrait painter, and it is pronounced by the few who have seen it one of her finest efforts. Miss Lodeman had nothing to guide her but a small photograph and she had known Judge Babbitt but slightly so could not fall back on memory, but in spite of these disadvantages she has produced a most excellent likeness, while the work, as is to be expected from Miss Lodeman, is of the finest character. In one corner of the frame of the picture is the coat of arms of the Willard family, from which Judge Babbitt was a descendant, on his mother's side.

There was also a reunion of the descendants of Judge Babbitt, held at Ypsilanti to celebrate the vent.