Talk:Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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I happen to have a "Who Was Who In American History" book in my posession and it lists Maltbie Babcock as not dying of a sudden illness but "committing suicide by cutting the arteries of his wrists and drinking corrosive sublimate as the result of 2nd attack of acute melancholia". Can anyone provide further information that Babcock did himself in or is my book incorrect?Longevitymonger (talk) 20:48, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * He was taken ill with a high fever and hospitalized while in Naples, Italy, apparently from an ailment contracted during a visit to the Holy Land. In his delirious state, the New York Times reported, he took his life in his hospital room. See the New York Times article . However, this was subsequently disputed, with the Times later reporting that the family maintained he died of fever.. JGHowes   talk  01:53, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Babcock's bio in "Who was Who" was an interesting read, and considering he was a man of the cloth, its strange that even in a delirious state he would slash his wrists and then drink some sort of poison. Guess he really wanted out!Longevitymonger (talk) 19:00, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Stained glass windows
There's a second stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany dedicated to Babcock, this one at the First Presbyterian Church in Lockport, NY: File:Babcock(2).jpg. Personally I don't think either the window or the photo are of quite the same quality as File:The Holy City.jpg, and one Babcock-dedicated stained glass window image seems enough for the article, but others might disagree. Huon (talk) 21:15, 13 October 2015 (UTC)