Babcock, James F
journalist, jurist, legislator, was born in 1809 in Connecticut. He began newspaper work at an early age, and in 1830 became editor of the New Haven Palladium, which soon began to issue a daily edition and which he conducted for thirty-one years. He was nominated for congress, and was elected by the democrats to the state legislature in 1873. The legislature of 1874 elected him judge of the police court of New Haven. He died June 18, 1874, in New Haven, Conn.