Rev. William B. Baldwin of West Fairlee, VT


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"Free Baptist Cyclopaedia"  Historical & Biographical  
Rev G. A. Burgess. A. M. & Rev. J. T. Ward, A.M.   
Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Co. 1889
page 26 

Baldwin, Rev.  William B., was born in West Fairlee, (Orange Co) Vt., in the fall of 1831.  
At fourteen he publicly professed Christ,joining the Congrational Churchthere.   Through 
sympathy with the Free Baptists in doctrine, he united with the Washington church in 1861.  
The same year he was licensed by the Corinth Q. M. He preached a year in Brookfield, and 
about the same time at the Second church in Corinth.  He was ordained in October, 1863.  
In the fall of 1864 Ile entered the Biblical School at New Hampton.  He trusted in God for 
his support, and went forward seeking useful learning.  He died April 5, 1865, and buried at 
Washington, Vt.