William Henry Babcock

William Henry Babcock (1849–1922) was an American author and poet. He was born in 1849 in St. Louis, the son of Jonathan Wells Babcok and Catharine Babcock (born Smith). In 1874 he married Ann Johns Earle, having at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. In 1897, he married Gertrude Lee Mahood. He died Washington, DC, in 1922. Babcock graduated from the Columbian University Law School, worked as a journalist, and practiced law in Washington D.C., specializing in patent law after having spent a year in the United States Patent Office as a patent examiner.