Hancock-Champaign County OhArchives Biographies.....Baldwin, William H. 1810 - 1868
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, M. D. (deceased), was born in Champaign County, Ohio,
January 16. 1810, and settled in Findlay, Ohio, in the fall of 1832. Having
studied and attended lectures at Cincinnati, he entered the medical profession
in early life and rose to a very respectable rank as a physician. His high
reputation and success gained him a very large practice which extended into
adjoining counties, as well as all over the one in which he lived. His extensive
practice necessitated long and frequent rides, and those who enjoy the
advantages and improvements of the present day know but little of what those
rides involved; there were but few well-beaten roads and scarcely any bridges;
streams had to be forded, swamps and marshes had to be crossed, and large tracts
of country often under water had to be traveled; but distance, difficulties and
ceaseless labors neither discouraged nor checked this faithful physician in his
untiring efforts to relieve the afflicted, honor his profession, and supply the
wants of those dependent on him for support. These hard and indefatigable labors
at last produced their effects; the vigorous constitution was impaired, and he
who had been the embodiment of health, and had so successfully practiced the
healing art upon others, became prematurely old and feeble, as all can testify
who saw him totter on his staff during the few years before his death, which
occurred December 14, 1868. Dr. Baldwin was married, April 19, 1835, to Mary J.
Patterson, who was born July 13, 1817, in Harrison County, Ohio, daughter of
John Patterson, who came to Findlay in 1834. In all the relations of life Dr.
Baldwin was considerate, respectful, just and honorable, and enjoyed the highest
esteem of all the people. He experienced the blessing of a saving peace under
the ministry of Rev. J. Tibbals, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in
1842. He was unassuming and unswerving in all his Christian duties, and made all
his worldly interests conform to these. Family worship was regularly attended
to, besides which it was his custom, to the close of life, to retire into his
closet several tunes each day, to commune with his God, so that when the Master
called we may well believe it was with the words "Well done, good and faithful
servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." At a meeting of the members of
the medical profession of Findlay, Ohio, Drs. Spayth, Detwiller and F. W. Firmin
were appointed a committee to draft resolutions, expressive of the feelings of
the profession at their loss of Dr. Baldwin by death, and the following
resolutions were presented and adopted:

   Resolved, That the medical profession of Findlay have heard with feelings of
profound regret and sorrow of the death of our colleague, Dr. William H. Baldwin.

   Resolved, That in Dr. Baldwin we have always found the polite gentleman, the
agreeable associate, the zealous student, and the attentive and skillful
practitioner of medicine, always at his post of-duty, despite its dangers and
responsibilities.

   Resolved, That we, members of the medical profession of Findlay, tender,
individually and collectively, to the family of Dr. Baldwin, our deepest
sympathy in their affliction, and assure them that we will always cherish the
memory of our deceased associate with heartfelt gratitude.

   Resolved, That as a body we attend the funeral of Dr. Baldwin.

   Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of
Dr. Baldwin, and that they be published in the county papers. 

   Mrs. Dr. Baldwin united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1836, and
remained to her death a consistent and active Christian. She died February 5,
1881. She was attended during her last hours by her four surviving children:
Mrs. W. S. Osborn and Miss E. E. Baldwin, New York City; John J., Ada, Ohio, and
L. A. Mrs. Dr. Baldwin was highly respected by all who knew her, and esteemed
most by those who knew her best. As a Christian she was quite unobtrusive and
strongly averse to all parade. Her house before her death was always a home for
Methodist Ministers, and many such recall with kindly feelings her generous
hospitality in years gone by.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Findlay Township and Village




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