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Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864) was an American author. To help contribute financially to the family, he began working at an early age, leaving school at fourteen and becoming a deputy law clerk. He worked as an editor at the Advocate, a local paper in Lexington, Virginia, while also writing pieces for the Richmond Whig. Baldwin's 1843 successful run as a Whig candidate for the Alabama House of Representatives inaugurated his political career. Most critics speculate that it was around this time that he began drafting his well-known sketches of the southwestern frontier that would first appear in the Southern Literary Messenger before being collected, expanded, and published under the title The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi in 1853. His other works include Party Leaders: Sketches (1855).
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He was born on January 21, 1815 at Friendly Grove Factory, near Winchester. His parents, Joseph Clarke Baldwin and Eliza Baldwin, daughter of Dr. Cornelius Baldwin of Winchester, were distant relatives, descendants of a race of gentlemen farmers long prominent in Buckinghamshire, England.
he advantage he enjoyed in family and birth, however, was partly counterbalanced by the neglect of his early training. Instead of attending school, he was put to work, serving as clerk in a district court at the age of twelve, and editing a newspaper at seventeen; yet by diligent study, later in life, he gained a wide acquaintance with history, an appreciation of both ancient and modern literature and a thorough knowledge of the law.
He began early to consider the law as his natural profession, and while still in his teens set about mastering Blackstone's Commentaries, under the supervision of his uncle, Briscoe Baldwin. Finding Virginia society too orderly for the promise of much profitable litigation, and attracted by opportunities in the newly opened Southwest, in 1836 he packed his belongings in saddlebags, mounted on horseback, and set out for Alabama and Mississippi. In this raw and turbulent region he spent the next eighteen years, some of them years of the "flush times, " when on all sides he saw wild speculation, frantic resorting to the law, wholesale political confusion. Settling first at De Kalb, he made a favorable impression in his first case, the creditable handling of which won him the admiration of an older colleague, Gen. Reuben Davis.
In 1839 he moved to Gainesville, where there were educated New Englanders and numerous signs of wealth and culture. Within a comparatively brief period he became prominent as a lawyer, and entered politics. In 1844 he served as a Whig member of the legislature, but in 1849 was defeated for Congress by the Democratic candidate, Samuel W. Inge. In 1850 he moved to Livingston, and in 1853 to Mobile to become a partner of the noted lawyer, Philip Phillips; but partly out of disappointment over political defeat, and partly in response to the call of a newer country, he now gave up his practise, and in 1854 migrated to California.
For some years before quitting Alabama, Baldwin had followed the custom of writing down, at odd moments, his impressions of the unusual men and scenes around him in court-room, office, tavern. His Virginia training, together with a native shrewdness, enabled him to appreciate the unusualness of the social panorama, while at the same time his own experiences as fortune-seeker led him to sympathize with others who had come hither in quest of wealth or of adventure. As a result, his interpretative volume on backwoods society, The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi (1853), was entertaining and enjoyed a wide-spread popularity. Encouraged by the reception accorded this, and by praise of an article on Jackson and Clay (in The Southern Literary Messenger, September 1853), he published Party Leaders (1855), containing sober studies of Jefferson, Hamilton, Jackson, Clay, and Randolph. His experiences in California were much like those earlier in the Southwest. San Francisco was in the hands of the notorious "Committee of Thirteen, " and in the administration of justice all was confusion. As Baldwin himself said, "Law was to be administered almost without a standard". In helping to establish this standard and so bring order out of chaos, his own labors were noteworthy, and his personal success at the bar was gratifying.
On October 2, 1858, he became associate justice of the supreme court, a position he held until January 6, 1862 (California Blue Book, 1909, p. 681), when he returned to private practise. His last years, however, were passed under the shadow of misfortune; his six children had all died young, and during the Civil War his aged parents were cooped up in Virginia, beyond his help. At some time in September 1864 he was threatened with lockjaw and underwent an operation, from the effects of which he died.
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Finding Virginia society too orderly for the promise of much profitable litigation, and attracted by opportunities in the newly opened Southwest, in 1836 he packed his belongings in saddlebags, mounted on horseback, and set out for Alabama and Mississippi.
In 1844 he served as a Whig member of the legislature, but in 1849 was defeated for Congress by the Democratic candidate, Samuel W. Inge.
He married Sidney White, daughter of Judge John White of the state. They had six children.
