Overlooked Orleans: Babbitt was a post office pioneer – The Daily News Online
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Overlooked Orleans: Babbitt was a post office pioneer
The Daily News Online William Jenks Babbitt ran that post office out of his log cabin home starting in 1816. Born in Providence, R.I. on Sept. 15, 1786, Babbitt learned the blacksmith trade in his father's shop. In 1810, he came to the unbroken wilderness of “the Genesee … |
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