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Nathan Baldwin
Nathan Baldwin, retired farmer, section 27, Dalton Township, is the second son of Jesse and Hannah (Mendenhall) Baldwin. He was born in Guilford County, N. C.. May 16, 1811, of English descent, and was educated at the log cabin subscription schools. He was reared a farmer, which occupation he has followed through life. He was married Feb. 21, 1830, to Melinda Hinshaw, of Randolph County, N. C., and the following fall came to Green's Fork, Wayne Co., Ind., and in the spring of 1832 he purchased his present farm, then a dense wilderness, but now in a high state of cultivation. He had seven children by his first wife, of whom three are living — William, Mary and Newton. Henry, Jesse, Seth and Hannah are deceased. His wife died Feb. 2, 1854, and he was again married July 27, 1856, to Rachel Reynolds, of Wayne County. Two children were given to this union — Melinda E. and Eliza J.
Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2