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Columbus J. Baldwin was born in Huntsville, Pennsylvania, and lived as a young adult in Wilkes-Barre, Lozerne County, Pennsylvania.
After marriage in 1859 to Lucie A. Gager, they spent a short time homesteading in Missouri, and then settled in Norwalk, Ohio,
where Baldwin owned a grocery store and participated in Huron County politics. Baldwin was also a writer of numerous articles
on politics, contemporary issues, and reminiscences in area newspapers and magazines, using the initials C.J.B. or the pen
name "Mountaineer." The collection consists of family correspondence, a ledger book containing accounting records and a diary,
newspaper clippings, and genealogy research notes and correspondence. Includes Baldwin's printed reminiscences of Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania and of Norwalk, Ohio.
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