Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Dudley BALDWIN
Dudley Baldwin was yet a lad when left an orphan by the death of his father, Seth Cogswell Baldwin. He began to clerk for Peter M. Weddell in his store on the Superior Street corner now occupied by the Rockefeller Building. Mr. Weddell took great interest in him, and at length young Baldwin became a partner in the concern. Other interests developed as the years passed, banking and the promotion of railroads leading to and from the city, all of which hastened its growth and increased the value of property.
Physically, Mr. Baldwin was slight and rather frail, his appearance much at variance with his indomitable will and energy. Had his earlier life been less pressing, he would have chosen to become a scholar, and his latter years of ease were spent in indulgence of his love for literature.
In 1833 he married Henrietta Hine of Youngstown, Ohio, daughter of Homer and Mary Skinner Hine. Her grandparents were Col. Noble Hine of Milford, Conn., and Capt. Abraham Skinner of Painesville. The first home of the young couple was on Bank Street adjoining the store, and here the groom, 24 years and the bride 23 years of age, set up housekeeping in a story-and-a-half frame-cottage with a little garden around it, including an arbor in which to sit during long summer evenings. We may be certain that Mrs. Weddell took great interest in the planning and furnishing of that little house, and that from her own pretty garden of native and rare flowers she helped to stock the new one, and that the bride in moments of perplexity over culinary mysteries, often slipped over to the older home so near and convenient to ask advice and secure help.
Here they lived for ten years, then built a small home on the west-side of North Perry Street, a short walk from Euclid, Ave., which from time to time received additions and improvements until it became one of the most picturesque houses in Cleveland; one so unusual and homely looking that no passer-by with an eye for the beautiful could but pause to admire. In addition to this, Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin in their love of nature adorned the ample grounds surrounding it with a rare collection of shrubs, vines, and flowers.
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