Charles Almanzo Babcock

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.

Works

• Bird Day: How to prepare for it (1901)

External links

• Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 ]

Works by Charles Almanzo Babcock at Project Gutenberg