New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-15
S. D. BABCOCK DROPS DEAD.
BANKER AND RAILROAD MAN FALLS
WHILE WALKING FROM CLUB
TO HOME IN LEMON.
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Lenox. Mass. Sept. 14-Samuel d Rabcock
| the New-York banker and railroad president
and large shareholder in the Commercial Ca
BILE Telegraph Company died suddenly in Lenox
this evening about o'clock from heart failure.
| Mr. Babcock was apparently in good health
| during the day, and was walking in Nain-st
| from the Lenox Club house to his home Osceola
Lodge, when he suddenly became ILL., He was
stricken in front of Byam X Stevens's home.
| and a number of persons in the vicinity saw him
pitch forward and fall to the sidewalk.
DR. Armstrong was hastily called but Mr..
Babcock was dead before the physician arrived.
The body was cared for at the Stevens Home,
where it was viewed by the medical examiner.
Mr.. Babcock was eighty-one years old. He had
spent the summers at Lenox for several years
with his two daughters. He was popular among
the cottagers. and was prominent in all
ners pertaining to the welfare of Lenox
He went to New-York in 1885 when a boy of
fourteen. and by industry amassed fortune.
1t is probable that the body will be sent to New
York for burial.
Mr.. Babcock prominent in the councils
Of the Episcopal Church. He was a vestryman
of Calvary Church and trustee of the Cathe
dral of St. John the Divine
He member of the Metropolitan Man
haitian. University New-York Yacht, Church,
Suburban Riding and Driving and Turf and
Field clubs the Downtown and Century asso-
Citations. the New-England American Fine
Arts and American Geograp hioal societies. the
National Academy of Design, the Metropolitan
Museum OF Art and the Museum OF Natural
History.
He was director in the American Exchange
National Bank. the Continental Insurance Com
pany. the Guaranty Trust Company the Metro
politan Opera and Real Estate Company. the
National Bank of Commerce, the New-York and
Harlem Railroad Company, the New-York Cen
trail and Hudson River Railroad Company
and the United States Mortgage and Trust
Company; president and director of the Central
Real Estate Company the Colonial Real ES-
tate Association. the Internatio Bell Tele-
Estate Association. the New-York Real Estate
Association. ViCe-preSident and director or the
City and Suburban Homes Company and the
Providence and StoningtOn Steamship Com
panv and trustee of the Central Trust Com
pany the Fifth Avenue Trust Company. Green
wood Cemetery. Improved Dwellings Associa-
ton of which ne was also treasurer; the Mu-
tuaI Life Insurance Company. and a MEMBER
of the advisory committee of the U s Lloyds-
Mr.. BabCoCk was born in Stonlngton, Conn.,
on May Is, 1S22.- He first went into an import
ing house in the East Indian trade. Here he
formed the firm of BabcOck Brothers & co.
When ffty-eght years old Mr.. BabcoCk retired
from this firm.
D Babcock. jr.. Woodward Babcock H. D. BAD
cock Mrs. William p. Dixon. Mrs Fordyce Bar
ker Mrs Henry Murd and Miss Alice Babceck
On January f. 1891. Mr.. BabcoCk's country
home at Riverdale-on-Hudson was looted ny Two
Young burglars who took gold and silver artl-
cIes worth thousands of dollars. The burglars
were captured few hours after the robbery on
a New-York Central train by detectives