Howard Selden Babb (1849-1909)
Born in Westbrook Maine to David Webster and Lucy Ann (Libby) Babb. They owned a small farm and D.W. supplemented income at a cotton mill where he eventually became a mill Overseer (or foreman).
---Howard S. Babb inherited the family farm and also worked at the paper mill of S.D. Warren, father of the famed art collector Edward P. Warren. He rose from basic mill employee when he was first hired, ambitiously to become a mill Overseer (foreman) like his father did. One census shows he later became an insurance agent, but cannot confirm. He was musical and was often band conductor for local community bands; the Portland Evening Express did an article on the "American Band" conducted by Howard for the Merchants of Saccarappa and Cumberland Mills 4th Annual Excursion, 1889. He was active in the Presumpscot Lodge #4, Knights of Pythias.
---He met his wife Margaret Loring "Maggie" Wagg, of Yarmouth, Maine; when she and her elder sister were both employed in the Warren mill. The couple married in 1872. Their first born son (to have been named Paul) died in infancy in 1882. He, his wife, and infant son are buried at Riverside Cemetery in Yarmouth Maine. Their son Hugh Webster Babb (1887-1971) earned a B.A. at Worcester College Oxford ,then studied law at Cambridge and Harvard, He ent on to become a lawyer, professor and head of the law department at Boston University.
---Incidentally, as a blue-collar family, the Babbs could not afford such a prestigious education for their son. It was the support of American millionaire and art collector Edward Perry Warren hat allowed the young Babb to live and study in England. Ned Warren new Howard Babb from his father's mill. He saw the potential of the extremely bright Hugh and generously offered to pay for Hugh's schooling at Highgate School, London, then Worcester College, Oxon. Hugh named his firstborn son Warren in tribute and gratitude to Ned Warren.
Born in Westbrook Maine to David Webster and Lucy Ann (Libby) Babb. They owned a small farm and D.W. supplemented income at a cotton mill where he eventually became a mill Overseer (or foreman).
---Howard S. Babb inherited the family farm and also worked at the paper mill of S.D. Warren, father of the famed art collector Edward P. Warren. He rose from basic mill employee when he was first hired, ambitiously to become a mill Overseer (foreman) like his father did. One census shows he later became an insurance agent, but cannot confirm. He was musical and was often band conductor for local community bands; the Portland Evening Express did an article on the "American Band" conducted by Howard for the Merchants of Saccarappa and Cumberland Mills 4th Annual Excursion, 1889. He was active in the Presumpscot Lodge #4, Knights of Pythias.
---He met his wife Margaret Loring "Maggie" Wagg, of Yarmouth, Maine; when she and her elder sister were both employed in the Warren mill. The couple married in 1872. Their first born son (to have been named Paul) died in infancy in 1882. He, his wife, and infant son are buried at Riverside Cemetery in Yarmouth Maine. Their son Hugh Webster Babb (1887-1971) earned a B.A. at Worcester College Oxford ,then studied law at Cambridge and Harvard, He ent on to become a lawyer, professor and head of the law department at Boston University.
---Incidentally, as a blue-collar family, the Babbs could not afford such a prestigious education for their son. It was the support of American millionaire and art collector Edward Perry Warren hat allowed the young Babb to live and study in England. Ned Warren new Howard Babb from his father's mill. He saw the potential of the extremely bright Hugh and generously offered to pay for Hugh's schooling at Highgate School, London, then Worcester College, Oxon. Hugh named his firstborn son Warren in tribute and gratitude to Ned Warren.
Howard Selden Babb (1849-1909)
Born in Westbrook Maine to David Webster and Lucy Ann (Libby) Babb. They owned a small farm and D.W. supplemented income at a cotton mill where he eventually became a mill Overseer (or foreman).
---Howard S. Babb inherited the family farm and also worked at the paper mill of S.D. Warren, father of the famed art collector Edward P. Warren. He rose from basic mill employee when he was first hired, ambitiously to become a mill Overseer (foreman) like his father did. One census shows he later became an insurance agent, but cannot confirm. He was musical and was often band conductor for local community bands; the Portland Evening Express did an article on the "American Band" conducted by Howard for the Merchants of Saccarappa and Cumberland Mills 4th Annual Excursion, 1889. He was active in the Presumpscot Lodge #4, Knights of Pythias.
---He met his wife Margaret Loring "Maggie" Wagg, of Yarmouth, Maine; when she and her elder sister were both employed in the Warren mill. The couple married in 1872. Their first born son (to have been named Paul) died in infancy in 1882. He, his wife, and infant son are buried at Riverside Cemetery in Yarmouth Maine. Their son Hugh Webster Babb (1887-1971) earned a B.A. at Worcester College Oxford ,then studied law at Cambridge and Harvard, He ent on to become a lawyer, professor and head of the law department at Boston University.
---Incidentally, as a blue-collar family, the Babbs could not afford such a prestigious education for their son. It was the support of American millionaire and art collector Edward Perry Warren hat allowed the young Babb to live and study in England. Ned Warren new Howard Babb from his father's mill. He saw the potential of the extremely bright Hugh and generously offered to pay for Hugh's schooling at Highgate School, London, then Worcester College, Oxon. Hugh named his firstborn son Warren in tribute and gratitude to Ned Warren.
Born in Westbrook Maine to David Webster and Lucy Ann (Libby) Babb. They owned a small farm and D.W. supplemented income at a cotton mill where he eventually became a mill Overseer (or foreman).
---Howard S. Babb inherited the family farm and also worked at the paper mill of S.D. Warren, father of the famed art collector Edward P. Warren. He rose from basic mill employee when he was first hired, ambitiously to become a mill Overseer (foreman) like his father did. One census shows he later became an insurance agent, but cannot confirm. He was musical and was often band conductor for local community bands; the Portland Evening Express did an article on the "American Band" conducted by Howard for the Merchants of Saccarappa and Cumberland Mills 4th Annual Excursion, 1889. He was active in the Presumpscot Lodge #4, Knights of Pythias.
---He met his wife Margaret Loring "Maggie" Wagg, of Yarmouth, Maine; when she and her elder sister were both employed in the Warren mill. The couple married in 1872. Their first born son (to have been named Paul) died in infancy in 1882. He, his wife, and infant son are buried at Riverside Cemetery in Yarmouth Maine. Their son Hugh Webster Babb (1887-1971) earned a B.A. at Worcester College Oxford ,then studied law at Cambridge and Harvard, He ent on to become a lawyer, professor and head of the law department at Boston University.
---Incidentally, as a blue-collar family, the Babbs could not afford such a prestigious education for their son. It was the support of American millionaire and art collector Edward Perry Warren hat allowed the young Babb to live and study in England. Ned Warren new Howard Babb from his father's mill. He saw the potential of the extremely bright Hugh and generously offered to pay for Hugh's schooling at Highgate School, London, then Worcester College, Oxon. Hugh named his firstborn son Warren in tribute and gratitude to Ned Warren.
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