Lafayette Baldwin and Rebecca Dinsmore

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Husband Lafayette Baldwin ¹

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           Born: 2 Jul 1846 - Shenango Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joseph Baldwin (1813-      ) 2
         Mother: Sarah Warnock (1815-1885) 3

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       Marriage: 28 Dec 1872 4

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Wife Rebecca Dinsmore ²

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         Father: Thomas R. Dinsmore (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Sarah Monroe (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M J. Ross Baldwin ²

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2 F Nellie M. Baldwin ²

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            AKA: Nellie S. Baldwin 4
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         Spouse: Joseph A. Van Gorder (1876-      ) 5 6

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3 M Charles H. Baldwin ²

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4 M Frank G. Baldwin ²

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General Notes: Husband - Lafayette Baldwin

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He was reared on the home farm and obtained a good common school education. In early life he engaged in teaching school and working in the timber, but farming was his principal occupation in life. Owing to his youth, he was unable to enter the army until the last year of the Civil War, when in answer to the last call made for volunteers he enlisted in Company I, Sixteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry. He served during the remainder of the war, and was in the engagement which resulted in the fall of Petersburg.
After the death of his father, Mr. Baldwin perfected arrangements to retain the old homestead on which he was born. A man of energy and enterprise, he made a success of his own business, and was frequently called upon to fill offices of honor and public trust. He filled nearly all township offices, including school director and township auditor, and served eight years as county assessor, and a like period as county auditor. In the fall of 1905 he was elected treasurer of Lawrence County.
In religious attachment the family belonged to the Center United Presbyterian Church. In politics Mr. Baldwin was a Republican, and was always an active worker for party success. He was a member of G. A. R. Post No. 100, at New Castle.

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 518, 804.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 518.

3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 379.

4 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 804.

5 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 488.

6 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 888.