Enoch Baldwin

BALDWIN, SPEAR, BALL

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Date: 4/13/2005 at 22:25:42

BALDWIN, Enoch, retired, res. on Elm st.; born March 10, 1785, in Morris Co., N. J.; in 1799 went to Essex Co. N. J.; in 1819 went to Newark, N. J. and then removed to Licking Co., Ohio, from there to McHenry Co., Ill., and from there to West Union, and first commenced the boot and shoe trade; continued it about three years and then engaged in a saw and grist-mill, which was his last business. Married Nancy Spear in Oct., 1854; she was born Sept. 13, 1810; died Oct. 9, 1877; had five children by a former marriage, three are living - W. M., John B., and Eliza (now Mrs. Ball). He owns fifty acres of land, with a saw-mill, about two miles east of here. Is a Republican.

1878 History of Fayette Co. Iowa ~ West Union ~ page 576