1 Born at Livermore, Oxford County, Maine; daughter of Joanna Merrill and Ebenezer Basford. 2 Attended school in Livermore. 3 Lived in the Boston area, circa 1842–1844. 4 Married Daniel Putnam Baldwin, 1844. 5 Served as vice president and treasurer of the Boston Female Penny and Sewing Society, 1844–1845. 6 Sailed to California, 1849; settled at Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, by 1860. 7 Practiced medicine. 8 Participated in civic organizations, including the Sons of Temperance and the International Order of Good Templars. 9 Helped establish orphanages in Sacramento and Vallejo, Solano County, California. 10 Died at Sacramento. 11 (See Document 1.12)
Elvira Basford Baldwin
14 July 1806 — 17 July 1891
Footnotes
Footnotes
[1] Vital and Town Records, 1796–1891, Livermore, Androscoggin Co., Maine, p. 204, FHL microfilm 11332. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Aug. 2014), memorial no. 36337557, Elvira Baldwin; Sacramento City Cemetery, Sacramento, CA. Virginia Marsh, comp., “Sacramento Historic City Cemetery Burial Index, 1849–2000” (http://oldcitycemetery.com, accessed Jan, 2012), citing Elvira Baldwin (Mrs.), lot 149. Some sources list her death date as July 16, 1891. (See Stake Genealogical Committee LDS Church, “City Cemetery: Sexton’s Records, Sacramento, Sacramento Count, California,” vol. 2 [Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society, 1957–1958], 27; and “History of the Home,” San Francisco Call, Aug. 22, 1891.)
[2] Vital and Town Records, 1796–1891, Livermore, Androscoggin Co., Maine, p. 204.
[3] Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal, of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, ME: Bailey & Noyes, 1874), 155.
[4] Two of Elvira Basford’s sisters, Eliza Ann and Emily, were married in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the early 1840s. (“Massachusetts Marriages, 1841–1915,” index and images, FamilySearch [http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014], David M. G. Livingston and Eliza Ann Basford, July 31, 1842, Lowell, MA, State Archives, Boston, FHL microfilm 1420527; entry for Joseph L. Russell and Emily M. Basford, May 22, 1844, FHL microfilm 1428255.)
[5] Boston, Marriages, 1844–1846, “Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620–1988,” database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014), Daniel P. Baldwin and Elvira Basford, Aug. 31, 1844; citing Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), Provo, UT.
[6] A. Mc. A., to Mr. Editor, July 25, 1844, Prophet, Aug. 3, 1844, [2]. “Boston Female Penny and Sewing Society,” The Prophet, Feb. 8, 1845, [2].
[7] “Sacramento Historic City Cemetery Burial Index, 1849–2000,” citing Elvira Baldwin, lot 149. 1860 U.S. census, Fourth Ward, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., California, p. 531 (stamped), Elvira P. Basford; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 63; FHL film 803063.
[8] 1860 U.S. census, Fourth Ward, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., California, p. 531.
[9] “Sons of Temperance,” Daily Alta California, Oct. 29, 1873. “‘Mother’ Baldwin’s Birthday,” Sacramento Daily Union, July 16, 1888. “Orphans’ Outing,” San Francisco Call, Aug. 22, 1891.
[10] “Orphans’ Outing,” San Francisco Call, Aug. 22, 1891. A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1891), 223, 249.
[11] “Old Ladies’ Home,” Sacramento Daily Union , Feb. 26, 1892.