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Hi there - I have a two and a half page biography on Lysander W. Babbitt. In the Babbitt Family History. It's definately the same guy. What would you specifically like to know? The biography is more than I can type here in it's entirety, but if you really want all the information I can forward it to you if you tell me how to contact you. Here are a few highlights specific to the rifle work: "Lysander learned the trade of gun-and-locksmith in Lockport, NY where his father ahd located when the region was a wilderness, at Gaines "on the ridge", Orleans County, NY. While a young man he went to cleveland, Ohio, where he engaged in business and made some of the rifles used, if he did not actually participate in the battles at 'Point Pellee' and "fighting Island,' February 24 and 26 1838, in what was known as the 'Patrio War.' During this latter year he removed to what was then "Flint hills, 'now Burlington, Iowa..." Politically speaking, "...He twice represented marion County in the State Legislature and was secretary of the first democratic State caucus held in Iowa City...In 1853 he was appointed by President Pierce, Register of the US District Land Office at Council Bluffs...He represented Pottawattamie County inthe State Legislature, 1867-1868....He was always an uncompromising democrat...He was the candidate of his party fo Lieutenant Governor, in 1859, on the ticket headed by Hon. A.C. Dodge, adn defeated..."
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