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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Babson family</a> of Massachusetts</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist. <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Babson (1816-1887) — of Wiscasset, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/LI-lived.html">Lincoln County</a>, Maine. Born in Wiscasset, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/LI-born.html">Lincoln County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/04-30.html">April 30, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/wiscasset.html#2">U.S. Collector of Customs at Wiscasset, Maine, Maine</a>, 1854. Died in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/09-25.html">September 25, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/LI-buried.html#cms04075">Ancient Cemetery</a>, Wiscasset, Maine. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Babson (1781-1825) and Abigail (Hughes) Babson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/11-25.html">November 25, 1841</a>, to Sarah Stuart MacCrate; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#612.77.83">Roger Ward Babson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#120.82.05">Waldo Babson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17738.html">Babson family</a> of Massachusetts.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Fitz James Babson (1828-1893) — also known as Fitz J. Babson — of Gloucester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, Mass. Born in Gloucester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/02-14.html">February 14, 1828</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Building contractor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1858-60; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gloucester.html#3">U.S. Collector of Customs at Gloucester, Mass., Massachusetts</a>, 1869-85; president, National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fish.html">Fishery</a> Association. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/christian.html">Christian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arch-masons.html">Royal Arch Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>. Died in Middlefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HM-died.html">Hampshire County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/06-25.html">June 25, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 131 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph Babson and Mary 'Molly' (Babson) Babson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/08-18.html">August 18, 1850</a>, to Sarah Elizabeth Proctor; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/07-14.html">July 14, 1885</a>, to Mary Jane McElwain; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#120.82.05">Waldo Babson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17738.html">Babson family</a> of Massachusetts.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Waldo Babson (1866-1941) — of Berlin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CO-lived.html">Coos County</a>, N.H. Born in Rockport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/09-28.html">September 28, 1866</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/drugs.html">Druggist</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/stsen.html">New Hampshire state senate</a> 1st District, 1938. Died in Berlin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CO-died.html">Coos County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/02-17.html">February 17, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 142 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sarah Elizabeth (Abbot) Babson and David Clifford Babson; married to Ada Emerson Bates; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#017.40.61">Fitz James Babson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#962.18.71">John Babson</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#612.77.83">Roger Ward Babson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17738.html">Babson family</a> of Massachusetts.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/612/77.83.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Roger W. Babson"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) — also known as Roger W. Babson; "The Seer of Wellesley Hills" — of Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-lived.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Gloucester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/07-06.html">July 6, 1875</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">Statistician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/economist.html">economist</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1940. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-economic-assoc.html">American Economic Association</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Author</a> of many books on business and religion; famed for predicting the 1929 stock market crash; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/univfound.html">founder</a> of Babson Institute (now Babson College), in Wellesley, Mass.; Webber College (now Webber International University), in Babson Park, Fla., and Utopia College (now defunct), in Eureka, Kan. Died in Mountain Lake, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PK-died.html">Polk County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/03-05.html">March 5, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 242 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-buried.html# ">Babson College Grounds</a>, Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Babson and Ellen (Stearns) Babson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/03-29.html">March 29, 1900</a>, to Grace Margaret Knight; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/06-01.html">June 1, 1959</a>, to Nona M. Dougherty; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#962.18.71">John Babson</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baber-bacchus.html#120.82.05">Waldo Babson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17738.html">Babson family</a> of Massachusetts.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger Babson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/026/000117672">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/97662536">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Roger W. Babson: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0894990748/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0894990748&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Future Method of Investing Money : Economic Facts for Corporation and Investors</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005XHVU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00005XHVU&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">If inflation comes; what you can do about it</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0836916425/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0836916425&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Washington and the Revolutionists : a characterization of recovery polices and of the people who are giving them effec</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0405080069/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0405080069&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Folly of Installment Buying</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Roger W. Babson: Earl L. Smith, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005Y02C/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00005Y02C&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Yankee Genius : A biography of Roger W. Babson</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Eminent Americans (1954)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. 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Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. 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