Merced County Biographies

FRANK P. BALDWIN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        The eldest in a family of five children, Frank Baldwin was associated 
with his father, Perry Baldwin, until his death. Perry Baldwin was a farmer of 
the frontier who came with his wife, who was in maidenhood Miss Lavancha 
Woodard, to Hamilton County, Iowa, where their eldest son was born. Other 
children of the family were Blanch, Mrs. Clarence Worthy of Berkeley; Etta, Mrs. 
Hugh Doyle of the Dos Palos Colony; Carl and William, both deceased. Frank 
Baldwin was educated in the common schools of Iowa and went with the family in 
1895 to California, and located in the Dos Palos Colony. The father bought forty 
acres there and later added forty more. Frank worked with his father and helped 
develop the land. His father died March 28, 1921, aged seventy-six. His mother 
lived to the age of eighty and died April 20, 1919.
        In August, 1921, Mr. Baldwin was married to Miss Rosalie Baldwin, who 
was born in Iowa, the daughter of Andrew Baldwin, and they reside on the old 
Baldwin homestead.
        Hugh Doyle, a brother-in-law of Frank Baldwin, is a native of Coles 
County, Ill., born at Lerna, on June 16, 1876, a son of James and Elizabeth 
(Lynn) Doyle, natives of Ireland, who had five children as follows: Charles, 
deceased; Edna, of Corning, Cal.; Hugh; James and Elizabeth, both of Dinuba, 
Cal. Hugh attended the grammar schools of Illinois and started out for himself 
doing odd jobs at the early age of twelve. Drifting from place to place over the 
west he rode the range in Wyoming and Montana, and came from Denver, Colo., to 
Dos Palos, Cal. He worked two years for Miller & Lux.
        Hugh Doyle married Etta Baldwin on January 3, 1904. Since then he has 
successfully engaged in farming in the north end of the Dos Palos Colony.
 
History of Merced County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1925
page 621