James Anderson Baldwin

Brief Life History of James Anderson

When James Anderson Baldwin was born on 30 July 1868, in Cowley, Kansas, United States, his father, Francis Marion Baldwin, was 18 and his mother, Ellen Augusta Scates, was 18. He married Florence Bell Keller on 25 July 1893, in Wilson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Springs Township, Greenwood, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Sycamore, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 10 March 1948, in Overbrook, Osage, Kansas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Cave Springs, Elk, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Anderson Baldwin
1868–1948
Florence Bell Keller
1870–1904
Marriage: 25 July 1893
Benjamin Harrison Baldwin
1888–1980
Florence Pearl Baldwin
1890–1964
Cordie Roy Baldwin
1892–1964
Elmer Edgar Baldwin
1895–1970
Mabel Merl Baldwin
1897–1976
Dewey Clayton Baldwin
1900–1958
William Francis McKinley Baldwin
1901–1994

Sources (23)

  • James Baldwin in household of Francis Baldwin, "United States Census, 1870"
  • James A Baldwin, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
  • J A Baldwin, "Oklahoma, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

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.

1879

Historical Boundaries: 1879: Greenwood, Kansas, United States

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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