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Elvira Basford Baldwin

14 July 1806—17 July 1891

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)

Footnotes

  1. 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” (https://www.citycem.org, 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. 2 Vital and Town Records, 1796–1891, Livermore, Androscoggin Co., Maine, p. 204.

  3. 3 Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal, of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, ME: Bailey & Noyes, 1874), 155.

  4. 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. 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. 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. 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. 8 1860 U.S. census, Fourth Ward, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., California, p. 531.

  9. 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. 10 “Orphans’ Outing,” San Francisco Call, Aug. 22, 1891. A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1891), 223, 249.

  11. 11 “Old Ladies’ Home,” Sacramento Daily Union, Feb. 26, 1892.