Joseph Baldwin was born in Virginia and studied law there but moved to Gainesville and Livingston Sumter County Alabama in 1834 to practice. In 1854 he moved to California. The following is his obituary.
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 28, Number 4223, 3 October 1864 — JOSEPH G. BALDWIN.
"Joseph G. Baldwin, formerly Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, died at San Francisco of lockjaw on the night of Friday, September 29th, at the age forty-nine years. He was a native of Virginia, where his venerable father still resides. Educated for the legal profession, he went to Alabama while still a young man and became prominent in practice at the bar as well as in politics. During his leisure hours he found materials in the peculiar society into which he was thrown for the sketches subsequently published in the successful volume entitled "Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi". In politics Baldwin was a Whig, approving the principles and following the banner of Henry Clay. In 1854 he came to California and began the practice of the law in San Francisco. Politically he acted with the Democratic party in this State, the old Whig organization having disappeared. In September 1857, the death of Chief Justice Murray caused a vacancy on the Supreme Bench, and Governor Weller appointed Peter H. Burnett to fill the seat until a successor should be elected by the people. In 1858 Baldwin received the Democratic nomination for Supreme Judge and was elected….
The Judge had been suffering for a few weeks from typhus fever, but was recovering, when a slight surgical operation for varicose veins produced inflammation and lockjaw, and the result was fatal. He leaves a wife, a married sister and a married daughter in San Francisco, and a son, Alexander W. Baldwin, in Virginia City…"
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 28, Number 4223, 3 October 1864 — JOSEPH G. BALDWIN.
"Joseph G. Baldwin, formerly Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, died at San Francisco of lockjaw on the night of Friday, September 29th, at the age forty-nine years. He was a native of Virginia, where his venerable father still resides. Educated for the legal profession, he went to Alabama while still a young man and became prominent in practice at the bar as well as in politics. During his leisure hours he found materials in the peculiar society into which he was thrown for the sketches subsequently published in the successful volume entitled "Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi". In politics Baldwin was a Whig, approving the principles and following the banner of Henry Clay. In 1854 he came to California and began the practice of the law in San Francisco. Politically he acted with the Democratic party in this State, the old Whig organization having disappeared. In September 1857, the death of Chief Justice Murray caused a vacancy on the Supreme Bench, and Governor Weller appointed Peter H. Burnett to fill the seat until a successor should be elected by the people. In 1858 Baldwin received the Democratic nomination for Supreme Judge and was elected….
The Judge had been suffering for a few weeks from typhus fever, but was recovering, when a slight surgical operation for varicose veins produced inflammation and lockjaw, and the result was fatal. He leaves a wife, a married sister and a married daughter in San Francisco, and a son, Alexander W. Baldwin, in Virginia City…"
Joseph Baldwin was born in Virginia and studied law there but moved to Gainesville and Livingston Sumter County Alabama in 1834 to practice. In 1854 he moved to California. The following is his obituary.
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 28, Number 4223, 3 October 1864 — JOSEPH G. BALDWIN.
"Joseph G. Baldwin, formerly Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, died at San Francisco of lockjaw on the night of Friday, September 29th, at the age forty-nine years. He was a native of Virginia, where his venerable father still resides. Educated for the legal profession, he went to Alabama while still a young man and became prominent in practice at the bar as well as in politics. During his leisure hours he found materials in the peculiar society into which he was thrown for the sketches subsequently published in the successful volume entitled "Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi". In politics Baldwin was a Whig, approving the principles and following the banner of Henry Clay. In 1854 he came to California and began the practice of the law in San Francisco. Politically he acted with the Democratic party in this State, the old Whig organization having disappeared. In September 1857, the death of Chief Justice Murray caused a vacancy on the Supreme Bench, and Governor Weller appointed Peter H. Burnett to fill the seat until a successor should be elected by the people. In 1858 Baldwin received the Democratic nomination for Supreme Judge and was elected….
The Judge had been suffering for a few weeks from typhus fever, but was recovering, when a slight surgical operation for varicose veins produced inflammation and lockjaw, and the result was fatal. He leaves a wife, a married sister and a married daughter in San Francisco, and a son, Alexander W. Baldwin, in Virginia City…"
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 28, Number 4223, 3 October 1864 — JOSEPH G. BALDWIN.
"Joseph G. Baldwin, formerly Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, died at San Francisco of lockjaw on the night of Friday, September 29th, at the age forty-nine years. He was a native of Virginia, where his venerable father still resides. Educated for the legal profession, he went to Alabama while still a young man and became prominent in practice at the bar as well as in politics. During his leisure hours he found materials in the peculiar society into which he was thrown for the sketches subsequently published in the successful volume entitled "Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi". In politics Baldwin was a Whig, approving the principles and following the banner of Henry Clay. In 1854 he came to California and began the practice of the law in San Francisco. Politically he acted with the Democratic party in this State, the old Whig organization having disappeared. In September 1857, the death of Chief Justice Murray caused a vacancy on the Supreme Bench, and Governor Weller appointed Peter H. Burnett to fill the seat until a successor should be elected by the people. In 1858 Baldwin received the Democratic nomination for Supreme Judge and was elected….
The Judge had been suffering for a few weeks from typhus fever, but was recovering, when a slight surgical operation for varicose veins produced inflammation and lockjaw, and the result was fatal. He leaves a wife, a married sister and a married daughter in San Francisco, and a son, Alexander W. Baldwin, in Virginia City…"
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