- JULIUS BALDWIN, who is a retired farmer at Brooklyn, Green
county, where he is filling the
- office of justice of the peace, was born at Clearville, Kent
Co., Ont., April 16, 1832, and is a son of David Samuel and Catherine
(ROOME) BALDWIN, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter
of Nova Scotia. In their family were eleven children, five of
whom are living: Lucinda, widow of Ralph FORD, of Evansville,
Wis.; Phineas, of Brooklyn; Asa James, of Wausau, Wis.; Julius;
and Anson, of Evansville, Wisconsin.
- David Samuel BALDWIN was a lumberman and a farmer, and for
seventeen years had a mail
- contract in Canada. He came to Wisconsin in 1849, and settled
in Oregon, Dane county, two miles from the village of Brooklyn,
where he bought six hundred acres of land, which he improved.
Here he died Aug. 25, 1854, at the age of seventy-five years.
His widow died June 14, 1880, at the age of eighty-six years.
Mr. BALDWIN was a Whig in the United States. In Canada he served
as justice of the peace, and as captain of militia. Phineas BALDWIN,
his father, and the grandfather of Julius, was a native of Litchfield,
Conn., dying in Canada at the early age of forty-two years; he
was the father of five children. Abraham ROOME, the maternal
grandfather of Julius BALDWIN, was a native of New Brunswick,
and he was a farmer by occupation, finally moving into Kent county,
Ontario, where he settled in a place called "Fifty-Two;"
he died in middle life, the father of a numerous family. The
first BALDWIN in America is said to have been a kidnapped child,
taken from some place in England or Wales, from which the BALDWINS
sprang. David S. BALDWIN was married a second time, and his second
wife was the mother of the children mentioned above. By his first
wife he was the father of two children.
- Julius BALDWIN spent the first seventeen years of his life
in Canada, where he had his schooling.
- He was steadily engaged in farming until 1894. In 1894 he
came with his parents to Wisconsin and remained at home until
he reached maturity. His father gave him one hundred acres of
land, after his custom of giving each of his children land to
the value of one thousand dollars. Julius BALDWIN continued to
cultivate the old homestead farm until 1894, when he rented it
to his son, and moved into his fine residence property in Brooklyn,
where he has since lived retired. Mr. BALDWIN added to his landed
possessions from time to time until at one time he owned 216
acres. During his active years he did general farming and stock
raising.
- On Oct. 24, 1855, Mr. BALDWIN married Miss Clarissa B. McLAUGHLIN,
a daughter of
- William W. and Sarah (ROBINSON) McLAUGHLIN. To them were
born: Charles S., who married Nona COLBY, who is now deceased;
Clinton I., who married Carrie BENNETT, and lives in the town
of Oregon, Dane county; Lloyd M., who married May GRAY, now deceased;
Minnie E., who married Palmer A. HAYNES, of Brooklyn, and is
the mother of one daughter, Beth; Myra J., who married Robert
S. GILLIES, and lives in Raymond, S. Dak.; Boyd M., who married
Minnie BONING, lives on the old homestead, and is the father
of three sons, Henry, Robert and Frank; and Daisy, who is teaching
school near Raymond, S. Dak., and is unmarried. Mr. BALDWIN is
a member of the Brooklyn Lodge, No. 332, I.O.O.F. In politics
he is a Republican, and was supervisor in Oregon one year, assessor
for eleven years, and for two years he has occupied his present
position as justice of the peace.
- Mrs. BALDWIN's parents were natives of Ohio, and had four
children, three of whom are now
- living: Anna Maria, the wife of Reuben BOYSE, of Dane county;
James B., of Sheldon, Iowa; Clarissa, who is Mrs. BALDWIN. William
McLAUGHLIN learned the shoemaker's trade, but followed farming
all his life. His first wife, a devout Methodist, died in Clark
county, Ohio, in 1836, when a young woman. For his second wife
he married Emeline HAZELTINE. to this marriage there were born
four children, two of whom are still living: Harriet, who is
the wife of John WHITE, of Minneapolis, and Almira, the wife
of Frank FRISBIE, of Sheldon, Iowa. Mr. McLAUGHLIN moved into
Green county, Wis., in 1842, where he owned 200 acres of land.
At the first his nearest neighbors were nine miles off. He became
a prominent man, and was the first chairman of the town board,
and was chairman of the town board of supervisors a number of
years. He was twice elected to the State Assembly, and for many
years was assessor. He died April 2, 1877, at the age of seventy
years. His widow died in 1896 at the age of eighty. The paternal
grandfather of Mrs. BALDWIN was James McLAUGHLIN, a native of
Scotland, who came to this country when he was six years old.
He was the father of six children, an died advanced in years.
Mrs. BALDWIN's maternal grandfather was Richard R. ROBINSON,
a farmer, who was born in Pennsylvania, of Dutch descent, and
who died at the age of eighty-four.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 404-405.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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