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Harold Ferrin Baldwin
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0.24 l.m. of textual records, 134 postcards, 2 photographs, 1 x-ray.
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Harold Ferrin Baldwin was born 9 July 1886 in Baldwin's Mills, the eldest son of Willis K. Baldwin and Lill M. Ferrin. He attended Stanstead Wesleyan College for his secondary schooling. He then pursued post-secondary studies at McGill University in Montreal and graduated in 1909. He also traveled extensively during his early adulthood. Harold married Ruth S. May, also of Baldwin's Mills, 26 January 1921. He and Ruth had seven children: Ruby May, Willis Keith, Elvyn Mead, Eunice Ruth, Alice Lill, Harold Richard and Lester Stevens.
Harold F. Baldwin passed away 2 April 1975 while in California and was buried at the Lakeview Cemetery in Baldwin's Mills.
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The subseries contains primary source material on the personal and professional life of Harold F. Baldwin from 1904 to 1989. It consists mainly of correspondence, personal diaries and land deeds. The series is composed of the following files: Personal correspondence written (1904-1974), Business correspondence written (1924-1974), Politics (1925-1929, 1962), Land Transactions (1913-1966, 1989), Personal Diaries (1914-1969), Education (1959), Certificates of Membership (1927), Travel (1940, 1945), Church involvement ([after 1925]-1947), Stanstead Historical Society (1946- 1973), Medical records (1920, 1937, 1940, 1958), Mining interests (1938-1965), Last Will and Testament (1969, 1973), Government expropriation (1953-1963), John Kantor affair (1926-1929, 1937-1941), Financial records (1937-1951), Survey notes ([194-?]-[197-?]), Stanstead College (1909, 1937-1951), Personal correspondence received ([1906-1974?]), Business correspondence received ([1909?]-1974), and Miscellaneous documents ([193-?], 1941-1942, 1961, 1966).
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Most of the documents are in English, a few are in French.