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Surnames: Baldwin, Harris,Prosner
Classification: Biography
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E.A.Baldwin, farmer, of Daviess County, Ind.,was born in Vermillion County, Ill.,April 28,
1850, and is one of fourteen children, all yet living, born to Jesse W. and
Eleanor(Harris), Baldwin, who were born in Ohio. A number of years after marriage, they
moved to Vermillion, County, Ill., then to Chicago, where the father followed the real
estate agency, and was financially successful. He is yet residing in that city. The
father is about 85 years of age, and the mother ten years younger. Our subject was reared
on a farm, until about nine years old, when he went with his parents to Chicago, where he
secured a fair business education. He resided there until about nineteen years old, when
he returned to Vermillion Co., and about 1873 came to Washington, Ind., and was in the
drug business for about nine years. He then went to Montgomery Station, and kept a drug
store for three years, and then came to his present place of residence. May 1, 1881, he
was united in marriage to,!
Mary C. Prosner,a native of Licking Co., Ohio., born October 14, 1854, daughter of
Thomas and Mary(Price)Prosner, who were natives of South Wales. To them were born two
children, one of whom died at fourteen months old,Willie, and one now three months old,
Otto C.
The wife owns 165 acres of very fine land, and is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr.
Baldwin is a warm Republican in politics and an enterprising young farmer.
History of Knox and Daviess County Indiana
Goodspeed Publishing;Chicago;1886
Pages 746-747