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Record #9484
Augustus Carpenter Baldwin
Born: Dec. 24, 1817
Died: Jan. 21, 1903
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Buried: | Cemetery: Oak Hill Cemetery
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Find A Grave: 7449093
Father: Jonathan Baldwin
Mother: Mary Carpenter
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Isabella Churchill
Married
Flora E. Belding
Married
Children:
Other Relatives:
None recorded
Documents and Photos
Image in 1877 - Durants History of Oakland County
His residence in 1877 - Pontiac
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Augustus Carpenter Baldwin was born at Salina, Onondaga County, New York , Dec 24, 1817. He is the seventh in lineal descent from Henry Baldwin of Woburn, MA, who, according to the earliest records of the family, came from Devonshire, England, and settled in Woburn shortly before 1650. The father of Augustus C. was Jonathan Baldwin, born in Canterbury, CT., and his mother was Mary Carpenter, whose family name he also bears. He was the eldest child and only son of the family of three children Augustus, Pamelia and Mary. His father was engaged in the mercantile business, like many other pioneer settlers of Western New york, possessed slender capital, so that at his death, which occurred in Salina in 1822, his family were left in somewhat straitened circumstances, the children be all young, and the husband and father their only stay and provider. Thus left an orphan in his fifth year, the boy , Augustus, was committed to the care of an uncle, a former partner with his father. From the time of the death of his father he resided with his paternal relatives until 1828, when he went to Lancaster, NY to live with his mothers relatives. After that he had to care for himself and devoted his time to the performance of such duties as offered to a boy. Attending school and pursuing such elementary studies as his age and means permitted, and rapidly acquiring the fundamental principles of an English education. In the fall of 1836 he went from Erie County, NY to visit his fathers relatives in CT, where he taught school during the ensuing winter. For a short time he attended the Academy at Plainfield, CT. The limited Advantages offered to young men of energy in the Eastern States, caused him to turn his eyes toward new and wider fields. In the fall of 1837 he set out for the great west. On Nov 12 of that year, he arrived at Oakland County, MI, in the then newly admitted State of Michigan, and during the ensuing winter taught a public school in Southfield. For the next five years he taught and studied by turns, delving all the while as deeply into history and standard literature as the time and books at his command would allow.
