Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Baldwin, H E
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

H.E. BALDWIN, Joliet, of the firm of Nelson, Ferriss & Co., proprietors of the Joliet 
Morning News, and the Greenback-News, was born Sept. 25, 1853, in Lacon, Marshall Co., 
Ill., but during the first year of his existence his parents removed to a farm on the bank 
of the Vermilion River, opposite Streator ; two years afterward they removed to the vicinity,
of Ottawa, and, in 1862, made that city their residence; his father engaged in business, and 
continued until 1869; Horance E. attended the High school, under the management of Professor 
Thomas H. CLARK, until January, 1870, a period of nearly eight years; the following June, he, 
in company with his mother and three sisters, went to Woodson Co., Kan. where his father had 
already gone; he farmed there about two years, and, on St. Patrick's Day, 1873, began to learn 
the printing business at La Cygne, Linn Co., in that state; in May, 1875, he went to Chicago 
and completed his apprenticeship with the, Metropolitan Printing Company; His parents having 
removed to Kansas City, Mo., he spent the fall and winter of 1876; with them, taking a six-months 
course of study in the Kansas City High School ; at the request of friends in the Joliet Phoenix 
office he became an employe of the firm Of McDonald, Ferriss & Co. Feb. 4,1877, and in July following, 
became connected with the Morning News , while under the proprietorship of Charles F. DUTCHER; 
on the lst of October, 1877, be became a member of firm of Nelson, Ferriss & Co.

Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

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