CHAPTER LXVII 

 ROBERT H. BABCOCK, M.D., LL.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQI2 TO 



1913 



K)BERT HALL BABCOCK was born at Watertown, N. Y., 

 July 26, 1851. He was the son of Robert Stan ton and 

 Emily M. Hall Babcock. His father was of old New 

 England stock, having been born at Stonington, Conn., but he 

 was for many years a merchant and banker in Kalamazoo, Mich., 

 where he died in 1885. Dr. Babcock's mother was also of old New 

 England stock. She died in her eighty-sixth year at Washington, 

 D. C. 



When one considers that Dr. Babcock lost his eyesight at the 

 age of thirteen, one cannot help being moved to admiration at his 

 achievements. Educated in the Institute for the Blind from 

 1864 to 1867, he entered the preparatory department of Olivet 

 College of Michigan in 1867. After remaining there for two 

 years he went to the Western Reserve College (1869 to 1873), 

 from which he was graduated with the degree of A.B. He entered 

 the literary department of the University of Michigan in 1873, 

 and remained there for one year. Dr. Babcock began his illus- 

 trious medical career by entering the medical department of the 

 same university in 1874 and received the degree of M.D. in 1876. 

 He studied at the Chicago Medical College in 1878, the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1879, and continued his 

 medical studies in Berlin, Munich, and Wiirzburg up to 1883, 

 when he established himself in practice in Chicago. His alma 

 mater, the University of Michigan, conferred upon him the degree 

 of A.M. in 1897, and the degree of LL.D. in 1910. 



In spite of his blindness, his indomitable energy and his fine 

 training have made him one of the most distinguished citizens of 

 Chicago. He was chosen professor of clinical medicine and physi- 



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