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About Rev. Burr Baldwin
Rev. Burr Baldwin
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The Rev. Burr Baldwin
Burr Baldwin, 1789 - 1880
Burr Baldwin was born on January 19, 1789, in Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, to Gabriel Baldwin and Sarah Burr Baldwin (born Summers).
Burr had 11 siblings: Ann Baldwin, David Baldwin, Summers Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin, Sarah M. Baldwin, Charles D Baldwin, Ira D. Baldwin, Elizabeth Baldwin, James Baldwin, Morris Warren Baldwin and Elizabeth Betsy BALDWIN.
Burr married Cornelia C. Baldwin (born Keene).
Cornelia was born in 1798, in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
They had 8 children: Samuel Mills Baldwin, Elizabeth Whittlesey (born Baldwin), Thomas Scott Baldwin, James Baldwin, Burr Baldwin, Charles Porter Baldwin, George Howard Baldwin and Margaret Sarah Barret (born Baldwin).
Burr lived in 1860, at Montrose Borough, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Burr passed away on January 23, 1880, at age 91 in Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Next to our church stands our parsonage. This two-storey white house is 178 years old, built in 1830 in graceful Greek Revival style by our first “settled” (living here, full-time) minister, Rev. Burr Baldwin. The parsonage left us, was owned by the future mayor of Chicago, and then returned to us, bequeathed by an invalid, Panthea Hopkins, on March 12, 1895. A small book on New Hartford history, Sketches of the People and Places of New Hartford in the Past and Present, published in 1895 by Sarah Lucia Jones, reveals its early history:
Rev. Baldwin built the parsonage on land purchased from Henry Seymour. (The Seymours were one of the 20 founding families of New Hartford and founding members of this church.) But his successor, Rev. Willis Lord, wanted a larger home, so Rev. Baldwin sold the parsonage to ambitious, young Thomas Dyer in 1835.
Dyer was then engaged in selling clocks (cutting-edge technology in 1835). He made some improvements on the place, added “blinds” (shutters) and a portico. In 1842, he sold the house to Mrs. Uriah Hopkins and her two daughters, the mother and sisters of his wife. He moved to Chicago, where he was later elected mayor from 1856 to 1857. At that time mayors were limited to one-year terms.
For fifty-three years our parsonage was home to the two sisters. Mrs. Hopkins died in the house in 1863. In July, 1895, the elder daughter, Miss Chloe Hopkins, died at the age of 89 years, “after a life of remarkable activity and vigor to its very close, leaving her invalid sister the last survivor of the family”.
Rev. Burr Baldwin (1789-1880) served our church from 1830 to 1834. He was born in Easton, CT, the eldest of 12 children, and attended the Staples Academy (now the fellowship house for Easton Congregational Church). The Burr family were influential founders of Easton. His mother was “a Burr”; hence his odd first name. He graduated from Yale in 1809 and, after almost dying from dyspepsia in 1812, recovered to graduate from Andover Theological Seminary in 1814. He held various missionary positions, teaching “destitute congregations” and “religious training of colored youth” from Ohio to New Jersey, until his calling to our church.
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Rev. Burr Baldwin's Timeline
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January 19, 1789
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Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
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May 2, 1823
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Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
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January 23, 1880
Age 91
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Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
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