Babcock, Orville

E., an American soldier, born in 1835 at Franklin, Vt. Served in the Army of the Potomac as lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp to Grant; selected the meeting-place of the generals at Appomattox, for Lee's surrender; promoted colonel in the regular army, 1866; served for a time as private secretary to President Grant, who subsequently deposed in his favor and thus obtained his acquittal from an indictment for complicity in revenue frauds, 1876. Died in 1884. Bab/cock, Rurus, a Baptist clergyman; born at North Cole brook, Conn., in 1798; president of Waterville College (Colby Univ.) Me., 1833-7; founder of the Baptist Memorial; a considerable writer and contributor to Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit . D. in 1875.