Susan Strickland Baldwin

Brief Life History of Susan Strickland

When Susan Strickland Baldwin was born on 21 April 1852, in Bradford, Orange, Vermont, United States, her father, Charles Cotesworth Pinkney Baldwin, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Ann Woodward, was 39. She married Brazillai Reed Hovey on 4 February 1874. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Perry Township, Buchanan, Iowa, United States in 1870 and Winthrop, Buchanan, Iowa, United States in 1880. She died on 7 August 1886, in Jesup, Buchanan, Iowa, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Perry Township, Red Willow, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Brazillai Reed Hovey
1851–1922
Susan Strickland Baldwin
1852–1886
Marriage: 4 February 1874
Jay Baldwin Hovey
1874–1953

Sources (11)

  • Susan S Baldwin in household of C C P Baldwin, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Susie Baldwin, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Susie Strickland Baldwin Hovey, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1854

On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines

The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic 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). In North America, this surname has absorbed Dutch forms such as Boudewijn.

Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan ), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald, hairless’ with English bald.

History: A John Baldwin from Buckinghamshire, England, arrived in the US in 1638 and settled in Milford, CT.

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

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