Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Baldwin, Horace E 
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HORACE E. BALDWIN, Joliet, secretary and treasurer of the News Company, was 
born in Lacon, Marshall County, 111., September 25, 1853.  His parents, John 
G. and Adeline S. Baldwin, moved to La Salle County in 1854 and remained there 
until 1870.  He was educated in the public schools of Ottawa, but moved from 
that city two years before his high school course  was completed.  Five years 
were spent in Kansas.  During the first half of that time he engaged in 
farming in Woodson County, and during the last half he made his home in 
LaCygne, Linn County, where he learned the printer's trade under the firm of 
Kenea & Gore, proprietors of the Journal.

In 1875 the grasshopper siege caused Mr. Baldwin to return to Illinois.  He 
finished his apprenticeship in a job office in the old Times building in 
Chicago, and in the following year went to Kansas City, where he attended the 
high school.  February 4, 1877, Frank H. Hall, present business manager of the 
News and one of the partners in the News Company, induced him to come to 
Joliet to work in the Phoenix office.  In July of the same year he was given  
a position on the Morning News, and September 30 became associated with R. W. 
Nelson, now of New York, and James H. Ferriss, one of his present partners, in 
publishing that paper, which in 1880 was changed to an evening publication. He 
has been connected with the paper from the day it started, April 9, 1877, to 
the present time, excepting about nine months spent in a grain office, in 1884.

Mr. Baldwin was married January 12, 1884, to Miss Lillian M. Truby, of Bird's 
Bridge, Ill., a daughter of the late Marshall Truby.  Five children were born 
of their union: Adda M., Marshall T., H. Robert, Henry D. and Phil.


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Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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