Charles Almanzo Babcock (1847–1922) was a late-nineteenth-century superintendent of schools in Oil City, Pennsylvania.Doughty, Robin W. (1983) Wildlife and Man in Texas Texas A & M University Press, College Station, p. 174 Armitage, Kevin C. (2007) "Bird Day for Kids: Progressive Conservation in Theory and Practice" Environmental History 12(3): pp. 528–551 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,"The First Bird Day: May 4, 1894" America's Story from America's Libraries and by 1901 the practice was well established."Bird Day for Children: Eight States Have One and New York Educators Want It" New York Times 21 April 1901 His wife was the author Emma Whitcomb Babcock.
Works Suggestions for Bird-Day Programs in Bird-Lore, Vol. I, (1899) , (1901)
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C. A. Babcock at Wikisource.