Background
Babbitt, Dean was born on July 10, 1888 in Cincinnati. Son of Dean Richmond and Adelaide Marcella (Karrmann) Babbitt.
Babbitt, Dean was born on July 10, 1888 in Cincinnati. Son of Dean Richmond and Adelaide Marcella (Karrmann) Babbitt.
Student, Holbrook Military Academy. Student, Peekskill Military Academy.
Book agent, clerk, jewelry salesman, furniture salesman, 1904-1907. Manager mail order sales Shaw-Walker Company, Muskegon, Michigan, 1907-1908. Assistant advertising manager The Gobe-Wernicke Company, Cincinnati, 1909.
Manager office furniture department Gibson and Perin Company, Cincinnati, 1910-1911. With Safe-Cabinet Company, Marietta, Ohio, 1911-1925, serving as branch manager, Dallas, district manager State of Texas, general sales and advertising manager, director sales and advertising, secretary company, board directors. General sales manager Safe Cabinet division Remington-Rand, Inc., Buffalo, 1925-1928, also member general sales advisory gabinet.
Vice president, treasurer Jackson-Babbitt, Inc., commercial research engineers, New York City, 1929-1931. Vice president, executive sales manager, L.C. Smith and Corona Typewriters, Inc., 1931-1933. Vice president, general sales manager Sonotone Corporation, New York City, 1933-1936, president, 1936-1947.
President, eastern distributor, board directors Carry-Cab, Corporation, from 1947. Chairman board, president, directors sales Belmar Electric Corporation. Board directors Stereo Pictures Corporation, Norcor Manufacturing Company.
Member industrial advisory committee State New Hampshire. Member New York Sales Managers Club, Bankers American Club, Marketing Executives Society, Sales Executives of New York Club, Costograph Corporation Executives Club (president), Masons.
Married Georgia Harmon Warren, October 18, 1911. Married second, Estelle A. Van Son, February 20, 1940. Children: Dean, Ann Richmond.
