Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Baldwin, Herbert H  M D 1857 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bios Album, 1890

HERBERT H. BALDWIN, M. D., one of the younger members of the medical 
fraternity of Will County, has evidently entered upon a successful career in 
his chosen profession, making a specialty of electro-vapor and medicated 
baths. He maintains that this treatment is superior, usually and in most 
diseases, to the internal administration of medicine. He was born in Blue 
Island, Cook County, this State, September 22, 1857, and is the son of Henry 
and Sarah J. (Alexander) Baldwin, the former a native of London, England, and 
the latter of Pensylvania. Henry Baldwin came to America about 1855-56, and 
died in the year 1858. He was a well-educated man and followed the profession 
of a teacher. The mother, after the death of her husband, made her home in 
Blue Island, and is now assistant Principal of one of the public schools of 
Chicago. The subject of this notice was the only child of his parents, and 
attended the schools of his native place, graduating from the High School 
there. Later he supplemented his education by attendance at the Cook County 
Normal, at Englewocd, from which he was graduated in 1876. For five years 
thereafter he occupied himself as a teacher in the schools of Cook and Will 
Counties. In the meantime he was Principal of the schools of New Lenox, 
Prospect Avenue and Washington Heights. He commenced the study of medicine 
under the instruction of Dr. H. W. Alexander, with whom he remained as student 
and associate for several years. The Doctor finally entered the Chicago 
Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1883. He commenced the 
practice of his profession in Joliet, where he remained something over a year 
then, crossing the Mississippi, went to Hankinson, N. Dak., where he remained 
until the death of Dr. Alexander, May 27, 1889. Returning then to Joliet, he 
took up the Doctor's practice and is building up a fine business. He belongs 
to the Will County Medical Society, and keeps himself posted upon modern 
methods of treatment, both in connection with his specialty and the regular 
practice. Dr. Baldwin was married June 25, 1888, at the bride's home in 
Minneapolis, Minn., to Miss Minneaxie A. Folsom. This lady was born in that 
city, and is a daughter of Prof. J. Folsom, also of Minneapolis. The Doctor 
and his amiable lady occupy a neat home on North Broadway, and enjoy the 
acquaintance and friendship of its best citizens. Politically he is a 
Republican, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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