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Babcock, Charles Almanzo

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Charles Almanzo Babcock (born 1849) was a late-nineteenth-century superintendent of schools in Oil City, Pennsylvania. He is credited with launching Bird Day, a day to celebrate birds in American schools, on May 4: the first Bird Day was celebrated in Oil City schools in 1894, and by 1901 the practice was well-established.

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Bird Day: How to prepare for it (1901)

Works by Charles Almanzo Babcock at Project Gutenberg

	v • d • e Features of Venango County, Pennsylvania
People	Jennifer Antkowiak \| Charles Almanzo Babcock \| Orrin Dubbs Bleakley \| John Wilkes Booth \| Mai Rogers Coe \| Cornplanter \| William Holmes Crosby \| Charles Vernon Culver \| Hildegarde Dolson \| William L. Durkin \| Albert Gallatin Egbert \| Frank Evans \| Gabby Gabreski \| John Galbraith \| Leon H. Gavin \| Calvin Willard Gilfillan \| Alexander Hays \| Samuel Hays \| Stevin Hoover \| John W. Howe \| Shauna Howe \| Willis James Hulings \| Chris Kirkpatrick \| Johnny Appleseed \| Kathryn Kuhlman \| Rolland Lawrence \| Ted Marchibroda \| Alexander McDowell \| James H. Osmer \| Spencer Peterson \| Arnold Plumer \| Jesse L. Reno \| Abbie G. Rogers \| Henry H. Rogers \| Milton William Shreve \| Joseph C. Sibley \| Dave Smalley \| Peter Moore Speer \| Tubby Spencer \| Ida M. Tarbell \| John Wesley Van Dyke \| Howard Zahniser \|
Geography	Allegheny River \| Cornplanter State Forest \| East Sandy Creek \| French Creek\| Kittanning State Forest \| Oil Creek \| Red Snake Creek \|
History	Drake's Well \| Fort Franklin \| Fort Le Boeuf \| Fort Machault \| Fort Venango \| McClintocksville \| Petroleum industry \| Pithole \| Pontiac's Rebellion \| USS Venango \| Wamsutta Oil Refinery \| Registered historic places \|
Industry	Joy Mining Machinery \| Pennzoil \| Quaker State \|
Attractions	Applefest \| Custaloga Town \| DeBence Antique Music World \| Drake Well Museum \| Oil Creek State Park \| Oil Region Astronomical Observatory \| Franklin Silver Cornet Band \| Venango Regional Airport \|

This biographical information was gathered from the Charles_Almanzo_Babcock page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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