John Baldwin

Notes:

He came to Connecticut with the other Milford Baldwins, but his exact connection to them is unknown. Savage shows him as a son of Sylvester, son of Richard Baldwin of Cholesbury. Without naming his father, Charles Henry Cory gives him as a grandson of the Sylvester Baldwin who died at sea in 1638. Later researchers have found these suggestions implausible.

John Baldwin (1619-1681) = Mary Bruen (1630-1670)
Josiah Baldwin (1642-1683) = Mercy Camp (b. 1652)
Josiah Baldwin (b. 1677) = Mary Pierson (d. 1726)
Eleazer Baldwin (b. 1717) = Experience Buell (b. 1724)
Mary Baldwin (1760-1842) = John Spofford (1752-1823)
Horatio Gates Spofford (1778 1832) = Hannah Bristol (1779-1837)
Mary Spofford (d. 1845) = Matthew Leffingwell (1801-1841)
Mary Leffingwell (1833-1880) = Jonas Bowman (b. 1824)
Adelaide Mesiah Bowman (b. 1859) = Charles Henry Berger (b. 1850)
Hazel Dawn Berger (1883-1950) = Lloyd Groff Copeman (1881-1956)
Ruth Mary Copeman (1914-1982) = Gilbert Ronstadt (1911-1995)
Linda Maria Ronstadt (b. 1946)

Family/Spouse: Mary Bruen. Mary (daughter of Obadiah Bruen and Sarah Seeley) was born before 12 Jun 1634; was christened on 12 Jun 1634 in St. Julian's, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; died on 2 Sep 1670. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 16 Nov 1658, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut

Family/Spouse: Samuel Baldwin. Samuel (son of Nathaniel Baldwin and Joanna) was born about 1655 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 12 Jan 1696 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Joseph Starr on 24 Jun 1697. Joseph (son of Comfort Starr and Marah Weld) was born on 23 Sep 1676 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 13 Jul 1758 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1690

Samuel married Lydia Sperry on 8 Jan 1713 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. Lydia (daughter of Nathaniel Sperry and Sarah Dickerman) was born before 27 May 1694; was christened on 27 May 1694 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 24 Jan 1735 in New Haven County, Connecticut; was buried in Milford Cemetery, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 18 Jan 1701, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut

Daniel married Esther Southmayd on 26 Feb 1724. Esther (daughter of Rev. John Southmayd and Susanna Ward) was born about 1700; died on 5 Feb 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Caleb married Martha Brown on 21 Feb 1745 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut. Martha (daughter of Joseph Brown and Mary) was born on 22 Oct 1726 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 26 Jun 1802 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut; was buried in East Side Burying Ground, Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Buried: Old Farm Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut
• Alternate death: Bef 6 Mar 1777
• Alternate death: 14 Mar 1777, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut

Notes:

Loath though we are to contradict Jacobus, her gravestone reads, in very clearly-carved letters:

In Memory of
Mrs Anna,
Wife of Mr
Joshua Miller
who died March 14th
DA. 1777 in the
34th Year of Her Age
Death conquers all

Anna married Joshua Miller on 14 Jun 1764 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Joshua (son of Stephen Miller and Anna Goodrich) was born on 3 Feb 1741 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 22 Apr 1810 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Old Farm Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Hannah Northrup on 9 Dec 1772. Hannah (daughter of James Northrup and Rachel Smith) was born on 28 Feb 1755 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 5 Aug 1822 in Aurora, Portage, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Henry Hendley on 27 Dec 1795. Henry was born on 18 Jan 1770 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died in 1807 in At sea. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1775
• Alternate death: Jul 1822, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio
• Alternate death: 11 Jul 1822, Cuyahoga Counrty, Ohio

Notes:

He was a paymaster in the War of 1812, and a freemason.

From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (citation details below):

BALDWIN, SAMUEL S. [...] was an early Cleveland and Cuyahoga County public official. Born in Ridgefield, Conn., to Samuel and Hannah (Northrup) Baldwin, he moved to a farm in NEWBURGH in 1808 and dabbled in real estate with LEONARD CASE. Baldwin's short public career revolved around politics. In 1809, he was elected justice of the peace in Cleveland. In 1810, he became the first surveyor and may have been sheriff of Cuyahoga County. (Several sources indicate Smith S. Baldwin was the first sheriff.) As surveyor he relaid the road between Cleveland and Aurora, and from Mantua to Warren, as a state road. Sheriff Baldwin officiated at the murder trial and hanging of JOHN O'MIC. In 1812, he served in the state assembly. The next year, he was elected to the Board of County Commissioners and appointed by the board to act as clerk. Baldwin married Sarah Camp of Ridgefield, Conn., who died in 1818 at the age of 36. They had 6 daughters and 2 sons. In 1819, Baldwin married Rhoda Boughton of Grafton, Ohio. They had 8 children: Philander, Lucretia, Caroline, Julia, Sarah, Emily, Henry, and Edward. Baldwin died in Cleveland but his burial site is unknown.

Samuel married Sarah Camp on 10 May 1796 in Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Rev. Samuel Camp and Lucretia Barker) was born before 3 Feb 1782; was christened on 3 Feb 1782 in Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 9 Aug 1818; was buried in Harvard Grove Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born on an August 4, year unknown.

Esther married Elisha Sears on 28 Nov 1822. Elisha (son of Stephen Sears and Phoebe Knowles) was born on 26 Jan 1801; died on 29 Apr 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 30 Aug 1800

Lucretia married Reuben Irving Henry on 29 Apr 1828 in Portage County, Ohio. Reuben (son of James Miller Henry and Sarah Cochran) was born on 13 Jun 1800; died on 11 Aug 1862; was buried in Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Portage, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Ebenezer Arnold on 13 Apr 1846 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Arnold and Persis Hubbard) was born on 5 Jul 1792 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Brig. Gen. Charles Turner on 20 Oct 1853. Brig. (son of Rev. Charles Avery Turner and Mary Bailey) was born on 2 Mar 1825 in Hampden County, Massachusetts; died on 13 Jul 1880 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois; was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A merchant of New Haven.

Family/Spouse: Evelyn Greenwood Thompson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Frederick Leonard on 21 Feb 1882 in Tazewell County, Illinois. Frederick (son of Isaac Eugene Leonard, Mayor of Pekin, Illinois and Louisa Mount) was born in 1856 in Illinois; died on 27 Oct 1924 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His daughter Elizabeth's obituary in the Marin Independent Journal (20 Sep 1992, reproduced at www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html) calls him "a prominent San Francisco attorney", but also refers to him, apparently in error, as "Eugene Arnold." Elizabeth's son Tom Whitmore confirms that his name was George Stanleigh Arnold, and adds that he was a Yale man known to friends as "Big Stan."

From his Yale obituary:

Admitted to practice in Connecticut 1906 and California 1910, in office of Talcott H Russell ['69], New Haven, 1906; law examiner United States Forest Service, Washington, D C , 1906-09, lawyer in San Francisco 1909-42 (member Denman & Arnold 1911-18); special assistant to United States Attorney General in oil-land litigation 1913; San Francisco representative for President Wilson's Commission on Mediation and Conciliation 1917; member War Labor Policies Board, Washington, 1918-19, special assistant to Attorney General of United States in charge NRA litigation 1934-35; chairman emergency boards created by President Roosevelt in 1936 and 1937 under provisions of Railway Labor Act to investigate and report on railway labor disputes; chairman of a three-man board created by the President in 1941 to investigate wage dispute between ore dock workers of Duluth-Supenor district and rail carriers, president Pacific States (now Coos Bay) Lumber Company 1926-27 and Katharine Branson School, Ross, Calif, 1939-42; vice-president California Fish and Game Commission; director San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Save-the-Redwoods League; Boy Scout Commissioner Mann County, president Yale Alumni Association of Northern California 1921-23 and representative on Alumni Board 1923-42, California State chairman Yale Law School Association 1921; member University Club of San Francisco (president 1925-29) and St John's Church (Episcopal), Ross.

George married Elizabeth Sherman Thatcher Kent on 26 Feb 1915 in Washington, D.C.. Elizabeth (daughter of Rep. William Kent and Elizabeth Thacher) was born on 8 Jan 1894 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; died on 12 Jan 1952 in Marin, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louise married Herman Wenger Danforth on 18 Oct 1905 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. Herman (son of Henry Rupert Danforth, Mayor of Washington, Illinois and Mary Elizabeth Wenger) was born on 15 Jun 1872 in Danforth, Iroquois, Illinois; died on 8 Aug 1949 in Danforth, Iroquois, Illinois; was buried in Glendale Cemetery, Washington, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

http://www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html:

Elizabeth 'Bibbs' [sic] Arnold of Los Altos, a mathematician, environmentalist and wildlife advocate who helped crack the Japanese code during World War II, died Friday, Sept. 18, 1992, at her Los Altos Hills home of lung cancer. She was 76.

A native of San Francisco, Dr. Arnold was reared in Marin County and was the oldest grandchild of Rep. William Kent, for whom the city of Kentfield was named.

The daughter of a prominent San Francisco attorney, Eugene Arnold, she attended the Katherine Branson School in Ross and graduated first in her class in 1932. The school later named a day in her honor after she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vassar College in her junior year.

After graduating from Vassar in 1937, Dr. Arnold earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1941.

During World War II, Dr. Arnold was recruited by the Navy and worked on a team of cryptographers cracking Japanese codes, for which she received a Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

In the 1960s, Dr. Arnold worked on machine language translation at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Inc.

After her retirement in 1969, Dr. Arnold helped establish a recycling center in Los Altos and worked with Wildlife Rescue, helping injured animals.

Dr. Arnold is survived by her husband of 46 years, Dr. William Francis Whitmore of Los Altos; four sons, Charles Whitmore of Washington, D.C., Edward Whitmore of San Francisco, Thomas Whitmore of Oakland and Peter Whitmore of Victoria, B.C. Also surviving are her brothers, George Stanleigh Arnold of Kentfield, Peter Arnold of Grass Valley and Anthony Arnold of Novato.

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Note that the above obituary is in error in two respects. Her father was George Stanleigh Arnold, not Eugene Arnold; and her family nickname was "Bibba", not "Bibbs."

Her page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, showing her to be a generation of advisors closer to Felix Klein than her husband was.

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Elizabeth Sherman Arnold and William Francis Whitmore were 7th cousins, both being 6XG-grandchildren of Col. John Lane (1661-1715) and Susanna Whipple (1661-1713).

Elizabeth married William Francis Whitmore on 1 Nov 1946. William (son of Charles Edward Whitmore and Elizabeth Manning Gardiner) was born on 6 Jan 1916 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 6 Jan 1996. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lieutenant (JG), US Naval Reserve, WWII.

His ashes were scattered at sea by the US Navy.

Herman married Ruth Marie Gelpi in Nov 1944 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana. Ruth (daughter of Dr. Maurice Joseph Gelpi and Ruth Marie de Grange) was born on 10 Jan 1926 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana; died on 16 Dec 2000 in Scottsdale, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]