Rev. Edward Baldwin

About Rev, Edward Baldwin. He was a lawyer turned minister and is buried at the American Colony, Jerusalem. Baldwin was co-founder of the first medical mission in the United States of America with his cousin Dr. M. B. Kirkpatrick. In 1860, he was resident in the 2nd Ward, Philadelphia City. On June 4th 1865 he married Ella Amelia Wheat. In April 1879 he was resident at this Philadelphia Medical Mission. In 1880, after studying to be a Baptist preacher, he was ordained. He was Pastor of the First Baptist Church at Greensboro. At this time, he was residing in Asheville, North Carolina, high up in the Appalachian Mountains. On 8 October 1884, he sailed with his wife & children to Morocco, North Africa where he initiated & operated a Mission Hospital at Hope House, Tangier on a cliff overlooking the sea. His wife, Ella Baldwin ran a medical dispensary from the house, while Edwina Tulloch assisted her with the education & care of the children for a year, before succumbing to typhoid. In 1887, his youngest child died in Tangier. Rev. Baldwin wore native dress and preached to the Muslims, making too few converts to please the Baptist Church. He then rode through Central Asia, preaching wherever he could & then worked in Syria. In 1891, Baldwin joined the American Colony of Jerusalem , taking four of his children with him, where he served until his death. The last of his children left the American Colony in Jerusalem in 1938. The Mission hospital in Tangier was continued as the Tulloch Memorial Hospital.[ Source:Find a Grave, & article : Colonist biography: Edward Furman Baldwin by K G Hickson, The American Colony in Jerusalem Heritage Society]