Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a7.
 
ALEXANDER BALDWIN

     Was born in Montgomery Township, Gibson county, Ind., January 28, 1827, and
is the son of John and Margery (Trig) Baldwin.  He lived on the farm until he
married Martha Music, on the second of March, 1851.  He then rented a farm for
four years.  Moving thence to Washington county, Illinois, he farmed there nine
years.  He started across the plains, and after a journey of nearly seven
months, arrived in Yamhill County, Oregon, in the last days of October, 1865.
In the fall of 1866, with a family of a wife and five small children, and with
but a wagon, two horses and a colt for capital, he came to this region and
settled on Hogeye creek, six miles from Dayton.  With this small beginning he
has pushed himself forward to the position of one of the substantial men of
Columbia county.  He owns 400 acres of land, meadow, grass and pasture,
including forty acres of timber.  A view on another page shows his ranch and
improvements.  Of a family of nine children born to him there are five living.
The children were John Fleming deceased, Elinora, Julia Ann, Olive Almira,
Ephriam deceased, Garrett, James William, and two who died in infancy.

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Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in August 2006 by Diana Smith.

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