Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Baldwin, Thornton F. September 27, 1840 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 313
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

Thornton F Baldwin, a stirring business man of 
Washington township, was born at Fayette City, Fayette 
county, Pa, September 27, 1840, and is a son of Robert 
Baldwin.
    Thornton Baldwin was educated in the early common 
schools of Fayette county, and took care of a school 
building in order to secure some additional and higher 
school learning. At an early age he began to do for himself, 
was a cabin boy on the river for about five years, when he 
learned the trade of butcher. He was engaged in boring for 
oil in West Virginia for several years prior to the breaking 
out of the late war. He came back to Fayette county in 1862, 
and engaged in butchering and the livery business.  After 
sixteen years experience in this work, he removed to 
Pittsburgh and opened a hotel. Owing to the loss of several 
members of his family he abandoned hotel-keeping, returned a 
second time to Fayette City and resumed his former 
employment of butchering. He continued it for two years, 
when he secured his present position on the river of steward 
on the "Hunter No. 2."
    In 1863 he was married to Miss Sarah McClinch, a native 
of Sheltersville, N J. They have one son, John W Baldwin, 
born in 1880. Mrs Baldwin is of Irish descent.
    Thornton F Baldwin is a K of P, U O of A W, Red Men, and 
a member of the N B A. He is industrious, energetic and 
never idle.

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