ABSTRACT
Robert Baldwin's grandfather was an immigrant wagon-maker who left England before the Revolution, and who became an early pioneer in the American Midwest. Among the influential and well-to-do farmers of Wabash Township is Mr. Baldwin, who, five years ago, became the owner of a farm comprising eighty acres on Section 13, for which he paid $5,000. Very early in life he began to carve out his own fortune, working as a farm hand at seventy-five cents per day, and the second year receiving $12.50 a month. Grandfather Baldwin emigrated from England in the colonial days and followed the trade of a wagon-maker. In the pioneer days, when Indiana was still a territory, he came here from Ohio, dying in the village of New Harmony when at an advanced age. His wife passed away at, Grayville, Ill., after having attained an advanced age.
