Orren was a son of William Calvin and Rebecca Rockwell Babbitt. He married Jessie Tupper before 1920.
ORREN C. BABBITT, LAWMAN, SUCCUMBS

Orren C. Babbitt, a veteran of law enforcement here for a half century, died yesterday at Memorial Hospital at the age of 84.
Babbitt, who retired a year ago as the court crier of U.S. District Court, had lived here since 1914 and in Wyoming since 1909 when he homesteaded near Pine Bluffs.
He had served in nearly every area of law enforcement with local, state and federal government.
A native of Sewall, IA., Babbitt was under sheriff of Laramie County when Sheriff Frank Roach and a ranch hand were ambushed and slain by two suspected horse thieves on a ranch 35 miles southwest of here on May 1, 1916.
The two slayers were arrested the same day, and Babbitt participated in the hunt for them and the direction of the sheriff's office until Roach's vacancy was filled.
Before Roach's death, the first sheriff's cruiser had been purchased in 1915, the preceding year, by the county commissioners and Babbitt was assigned to drive it.
As a lawman, Babbitt once escorted the legendary train robber, Bill Carlisle, to the Wyoming Penitentiary after the latter's conviction.
He served as a deputy in the U.S. Marshal's office and during World War II worked for the security force of the Union Pacific railroad.
Babbitt was in the marshal's office when he was appointed by U.S. District Judge Ewing T. Kerr as his court crier on May 1, 1956.
As court crier it was Babbitt's official duty among other things to officially open a session of court by calling: "Hear ye, hear ye, the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming is now in session...The Honorable Ewing T. Kerr, Judge, presiding. God save the United States of America and this honorable court."
Judge Kerr recalled today that Babbitt impressed not only lawyers who came to his court but visiting judges as well, and that one federal judge from Oklahoma once suggested that Babbitt start a school for training court criers.
" I have known Mr. Babbitt since the time I arrived in Cheyenne," the jurist said today. " He was a man of outstanding attributes. he was admired and respected by all of the Wyoming lawyers who will long remember his excellent deportment and kindly manner.
"Lawyers from coast to coast appear in this court," the judge added, " and during this long tenure as court crier I cannot recall any lawyer from out-of-state who did not remark that Mr. Babbitt was the most dignified and eloquent court crier they had ever known."
Survivors include Babbitt's wife, Jessie and two sons, Wilbur Babbitt, of Fresno, Calif., and Harvey, of New Haven, Conn., and a sister Mrs. S.E. Trenchard, Cambridge, Neb., and three grandchildren.
A member of the Congregational Church, he had served it as a trustee and deacon as well as a Sunday School teacher. He was a member of the Eastern Star, Korein Temple of the Shrine, Wyoming Consistory No. 1, Acacia Lodge No. 1 of the AF&AM, the White Shrine, and was a past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias.
Funeral services are pending with arrangements in charge of the Schrader Funeral Home.