Unknown County IL Archives Biographies.....Baldwin, Theron 1801 - 1870
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BALDWIN, Theron, clergyman, was born at Goshen, Conn., July 21, 1801, son of 
Elisha and Clarissa (Judd) Baldwin. He received his education at Yale college, 
from which he was graduated in 1827 with high honors. The following two years 
he devoted to the study of theology, and in 1829 was ordained to the ministry, 
beginning his work as missionary in Western Illinois college, where he 
remained until 1837. Both the Illinois college and the Monticello female 
seminary were founded by him, and he was principal of the latter from 1837 to 
1843. He also founded the society for the promotion of collegiate and 
theological education in the west, of which he was for twenty-seven years the 
energetic and efficient secretary, his headquarters being in the Bible house 
in New York, and his residence at Orange, N.J. Yale college conferred upon him 
the degree of A.M. in 1831, and Marietta the degree of S.T.D. in 1862. He died 
at Orange, N.J., April 10, 1870.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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