Background
Babcock, Samuel Gavitt was born on October 8, 1851 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Stanton and Sarah J. Babcock.
Babcock, Samuel Gavitt was born on October 8, 1851 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Stanton and Sarah J. Babcock.
Took special courses in college. Graduate Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1891, Bachelor of Divinity, 1897. (Doctor of Divinity, Brown University, 1915).
Deacon, 1877, priest, 1891, P. East. Church. Assistant pastor Grace Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1891-1892, rector Christ Church, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 1892-1903. Archdeacon of New Bedford, 1899-1903.
Archdeacon of Massachusetts, 1903-1913.
Elected bishop Protestant Episcopal Church, April 10, 1913, retired, January 1, 1938.
Clubs: Twenty, Clerical, Clericus.
Married Abbie G. Miller, 1875 (died 1922). Married second, Mary K. Davey, 1923.