She was interested in home mission work and was president of a literary club which was known throughout western Pennsylvania, and which founded a public library.

It is evidently written by a lady who has rather more than her fair share of common sense and good judgment, and moreover had the additional advantage of extended experience.

Mrs. Babcock of course furnishes a number of culinary receipts, but her advice takes, a wide range, and embraces all the various phases of housekeeping, including the management of children.” [8] The Belles-Lettres Club was the first to conduct (with financial success) a course of lectures in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and was one of the first in Pennsylvania to join the General Federation of Women's Clubs.

The incorporators were, Babcock, Emma Simpson Hulings, Elizabeth Cowell, Rebecca M. Parker, Laura M. Wise, Jean M. Hyde, Sarah Delphine Crozier, Rebecca Clark, Jennie Barr, Lavinia K. Hartwell, Elizabeth L. Brundred, Clara L. Hartwell.

[4] She became a resident of Oil City, in which town her husband, Charles Almanzo Babcock, was superintendent of schools.