WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


            TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MATTER, STATISTICS, ETC.
                   GATHERED FROM MATTER FURNISHED BY 
                       INTERVIEWS WITH OLD SETTLERS,
        COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND OTHER RECORDS, AND EXTRACTS FROM 
                FILES OF PAPERS, PAMPHLETS, AND SUCH OTHER 
                     SOURCES AS HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE. 

                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884



  Baldwin, Jeremiah, of New Haven, Connecticut, was born in the year 1827, and removed to Ohio 
 with his parents at the age of six years, and at the age of thirteen to Wisconsin, where he attended 
 school until of age, part being to public and part to select school, taught by Rev. Henry Heaton. He, 
 after working on the farm for several summers, purchased eighty acres, and for a time was employed 
 in the government survey. At twenty-eight he married Julia Emery, of Wisconsin, who, after bearing 
 him two children, Amos E., now practicing medicine in Marshall, Minnesota , and a daughter, since 
 deceased, died in the spring of 1857. Eighteen months after he married his second wife, Lucia A. 
 Pierce, of West Townsend, Vermont, May 5, 1858. From this union sprang Willis P., Horace J., J. 
 Arthur and Minnie A., all living. In the spring of 1863 Jeremiah left Wisconsin by ox-team, after 
 selling out, and settled on his present farm, part of which, one hundred acres, he purchased two years 
 before of one William Thompson. Six years from this he bought out John Allon, twenty acres 
 additional, and completed his present one hundred and sixty acres about four years after by purchase 
 from George Cole. Mr. Baldwin has been an active trustee of the Congregational church of Plainview 
 since its organization, September 19, 1863, and his present wife has for some time officiated as 
 president of the Women's Board of Mission. Albert R. Pierce, brother to Mrs. Baldwin, enlisted in 
 1861, was wounded near Arkansas; was honorably discharged at Fort Snelling.