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Edwin Dwight Babbitt was born in Hampden, N.Y. 1 February 1828. He graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. with an M.D. degree. He arrived in Dayton, Ohio in the late 1850's and established the Miami Commercial College in 1860. In 1863 he published The Babbittonian System of Penmanship. In 1869 he became an active spiritualist and "psychophysician," practicing in Boston and New York. In 1883 he graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio with a degree of LL. D. In that year he also organized the New York College of Magnetics which later became the College of Fine Forces, which offered correspondence courses in "Chromopathy or cure by light and color, magnetics, mental science and other refined methods of nature, together with the explanation of basic principles" and offered a degree of Doctor of Magnetim (D. M.) He was the author of works such as The Principles of Light and Color, Human Culture and Cure, and Health and Power. His poem "Stand for the right and stand for the true" appeared in "Herald of Health," Vol. 22, July, 1872. He died 28 June 1905 in Rochester, N.Y.

Dianne Shapiro, from "The Babbitt Family History, 1643-1900" by William Bradford Browne (Taunton, MA, 1912); "Ohio Authors and their books: biographical data and selected bibliographies for Ohio authors, native and resident, 1769-1950 by William Coyle (The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1962) "Kook Science" wiki accessed 4/14/2016 at https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki