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2 unusual facts about Joseph Baldwin


Joseph Baldwin

From 1857 to 1863, Baldwin led normal schools, including the Farmington Male and Female Seminary (Burnettsville, Indiana) and a new institution at Kokomo, Indiana.

Baldwin left Kirksville in 1881 to become the third principal of the Sam Houston Normal Institute (now Sam Houston State University), replacing the recently resigned president, H.H. Smith, and bringing along his daughter Olivia Baldwin as the founder of the Art faculty; his daughter Zoe would also teach there.



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Laskay, Ontario

The settlement was named by Joseph Baldwin, and was named after his hometown Loskie in Yorkshire, England.