Submitted by Lisa Hamilton Thanks Lisa!

Philip Hudson Babb, teacher in the mechanical department and wood shops of the A. I. U., was born in Greeneville, East Tenn., June 14, 1844, the son of Philip and Artaminca (Hale) Babb, and grandson of Philip Babb, a native of North Carolina, and a millwright by occupation. He built the first mill in East Tennessee. The Babbs now living in America date their ancestry in this country back to the landing of two brothers at Plymouth Rock in early colonial times. They were from England, and both took part in the War for Independence. Afterward one settled in Massachusetts, the other in North Carolina, and from the latter descended the present Babbs of North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas.

The father of the subject of this sketch was a native of Tennessee, and a farmer by occupation. He assisted in moving the Indians from the Georgia Reservation to their present quarters in the Indian Territory, and afterward moved to Tennessee, where be died at the age of fiftythree years.

His son Philip was reared in Tennessee, learned his trade at Knoxville, of that State, and spent three years in bridge building in connection with the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company. He afterward went to Northern Missouri, and spent about two years in that state, then made his way to Arkansas, March 14, 1872, and has since been actively engaged in the building interests of Western Arkansas.

Among the many buildings erected by him may be mentioned the Benton County Courthouse at Bentonville, and he had the contract for building all the stairs for the Cherokee schools at Tahlequah, I. T., the Orphan Asylum at Grand Saline, I. T., and the Indigent School, five miles from Tahlequah.

Mr. Babb was married in Tennessee to Miss Mary Correll, a native of Rockingham County, Va., and the daughter of Rev. Andrew Correll, who was of the Dunkard faith. To Mr. and Mrs. Babb were born two sons and a daughter: Effie, Roten and Delmer. Mr. Babb was reared in the Methodist faith; he is a member of the Masonic Order, being insured in that society.

Lisa Hamilton submitted the above data from Goodspeed's; she did so to help others, is not researching the above person or families mentioned therein.

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