Clayton Elias Baldwin

28 February 1859–9 December 1896 (Age 37)
Meyersdale, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States

The Life Summary of Clayton Elias

When Clayton Elias Baldwin was born on 28 February 1859, in Meyersdale, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jacob Frederick Baldwin, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Lint, was 26. He married Clara Etta Brubaker on 12 June 1879, in Polk, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Summit Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Clear Creek Township, Jasper, Iowa, United States in 1870. He died on 9 December 1896, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Plainview Cemetery, Mount Morris Township, Ogle, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Clayton Elias Baldwin
1859–1896
Clara Etta Brubaker
1861–1952
Marriage: 12 June 1879
Rollins Clinton Baldwin
1883–1968
Martin Irvin Baldwin
1886–1953
Ira Wilson Baldwin
1889–1940
Daniel Roscoe Baldwin
1891–1975
Ethel V Baldwin
1895–1896
Esther Viola Baldwin
1895–1974

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World Events (8)

1863
Age 4
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
Age 8
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913. 
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 11
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

1 English: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin , Count of Flanders ( 1172–1205 ), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople ( 1204 ). As an American surname it has absorbed Dutch spellings such as Boudewijn.2 Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Maolagáin ( see Milligan ), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald’, ‘hairless’ with English bald.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Possible Related Names

Milligan
Bake
Balding
Baldon
Baudoin
Bauwens
Bawden
Billen
Bold
Bolling
Boltz
Boudoin
Bouwman
Bowden
Bowdoin
Boyden
Valdovinos

Sources (19)

  • Elias C Baldwin en la familia de Jacob Baldwin, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Elias C Baldwin en la familia de Jacob Baldwin, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Clayton E. Baldwin, "Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999"

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