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1932-1949, 1964 (Creation)
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- Baldwin, Jessie Adelle, 1908-1964
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11 textual records, 1 photograph (b&w).
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Jessie Adelle Baldwin, also known as Adelle Baldwin, was born the 28th of April 1908 in Stanstead, Que. to Percival Arthur Baldwin (1874-1946) and Florence Lucy Ives Baldwin (1876-1966). She had one older brother, Sidney Ives Baldwin (1899-1972) who died in Ayer’s Cliff, Que. Adelle grew up in Judd’s Mills, Stanstead County, Que. where she received her high school leaving from Stanstead College, in 1924. She continued her education at Bishop’s University where she studied Philosophy. During her time at Bishop’s University (1924-1928), she was on the Ladies Basketball team as defense in 1926 and a member of the Glee Club, a member of the Maths and Science Club in 1927-28, and Secretary Treasurer for the Class of ’28. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928. After graduating, she moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where she studied at Yale School of Nursing. She graduated from Yale School in 1931 as a Registered Nurse. During her time in New Haven, she met her future husband, Ulric Alcimus Lanoue (1903-2002), who was studying at Yale Divinity School for a Missionary career. They later married at the American Church in Paris, France on the 19th of December 1931 and Jessie Adelle Baldwin then became known as Mrs. Ulric Lanoue.
The couple left shortly after for Kimpese, Belgian Congo, where they remained and worked as missionaries for four years, with one year of furlough in 1937 in New York, followed by 5 more years of continued work in Kimpese, as missionaries, for the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. They had 3 children during this time; Robert Lanoue Baldwin (1933-1967), Beverly Jean Baldwin (1939-?), and Richard E. Baldwin (1940-?). Upon their leave from the Belgian Congo in 1943, they moved to the United States of America. Adelle became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1949. During her professional career, she worked 8 months with the Victorian Order of Nurses in Montreal, followed by 18 months with the Lutheran Hospital in Hot Springs, South Dakota, then 11 years as a staff nurse for the Veterans Administrations’ Hospitals in Hot Springs, Tomah, Wisconsin, and Madison, SD. Adelle also served as the executive secretary of the Orleans County Chapter of the American Red Cross, in Newport, Vermont, for two years. In 1951, Ulric A. Lanoue formally changed his name to Russell E. Baldwin. This surname change was adopted by his wife and children too. During the years from 1955-1958, Adelle lived in Tomah, WI and then from 1958-1964 in Madison, WI.
On December 3rd, 1964, Adelle Baldwin, that is Mrs. Russell Baldwin, was tragically found deceased in Rockford, Illinois at the Inn Towne Motel. Her funeral was held at Lake Edge Congregational Church in Rockford, Illinois, and she was then buried in Monona, Wisconsin.
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The subseries contains primary source information on Adelle Baldwin Lanoue's personal life from 1932 to 1949 and in 1964. It consists primarily of correspondence, much of which was written to family in Canada when she, her husband, Ulric Lanoue, and their son, Robert Baldwin Lanoue, were living as missionaries in the Belgian Congo. The family's 1933 Christmas card includes a photograph of Robert around six months old. Two of the letters, dated 1946 and 1949, were written from Newport, Vermont. The subseries also contains a photocopy of Adelle's obituary from the Rockford Register in 1964.
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Researchers interested in the missionary work of Reverend Ulric Lanoue may also wish to contact the American Baptist Historical Society. The ABHS holds a small collection of his letters -- primarily consisting of correspondence from his time in Congo. For more information, see here: https://libraries.mercer.edu/archivesspace/repositories/2/resources/614.