Background
Babb, Clement Edwin was born on August 19, 1821 in Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John P. and Mary (Shriner) Babb.
Babb, Clement Edwin was born on August 19, 1821 in Pittston, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John P. and Mary (Shriner) Babb.
Graduate Dickinson College, 1840. Dickinson Law School, 1842 (Doctor of Divinity, Marietta College, 1865).
Admitted to bar, 1842. Prosecuting attorney, Hillsdale County, Michigan, 1844-1847. Ordained Presbyterian ministry, May 1848.
Pastor 2d Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis (in immediate succession to Henry Ward Beecher), 1848-1853.
Editor Christian Herald and its successor The Herald and Presbyter, Cincinnati, 1853-1905. Chaplain 22d Ohio volumes, 1862-1863.
Author C. East. B. Selections from Editorial Correspondence, 1880. Senex Smith, his Notes and Notions, 1890.
Home: San Jose, California.
Married Lydia F. Hulbert, September 1848.