Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Baldwin was born on 19 July 1871, in Sidell, Vermilion, Illinois, United States, his father, Franklin Baldwin, was 39 and his mother, Editha Jane Naylor, was 31. He married Ella Mae Smith on 27 September 1905, in Charleston, Coles, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Carroll Township, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Catlin, Vermilion, Illinois, United States for about 4 years. He died on 21 November 1934, in Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Vermilion, Illinois, United States.
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- Benjamine F Baldwin, "United States Census, 1930"
- Benjamin F. Baldwin, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Ben Baldwin, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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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