Ezra Babbitt, a native of Franklin County, Mass. .....

The father of Mrs. Fiske was reared at Hartwick, N. Y., and settling there after his marriage, remained until 1832, and then sold out and removed to Seneca County. In 1836 he started for Ohio, and coming by canal and lake to Cleveland, he then took a team to Lorain County. After a residence, however, of only two years, he joined a colony and started for Illinois with horse and ox teams, having to cross the Black Swamp in the wet season of the year. Arriving in Henry County, Ind., he concluded to locate, and settled in the village of Raysville. He worked at his trade of a cooper until 1851, and then removed to Livingston County, Ill., and settled on a tract of Government land near Pontiac. He built a house, and continued to reside there until 1869, and he then came to Michigan, and spent his last years with Mr. Fiske, dying in June, 1880. The mother of Mrs. Fiske, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Tyler, was a native of York State, and the daughter of Joseph and Orpha (Briggs) Tyler, natives respectively of Rhode Island and York State. She departed this life in July, 1834, while the family were living at Seneca Falls, N. Y.

Source: "Portrait and Biographical Album of Branch County, Mich., Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States" ¹⁶⁹⁹