Abraham Baldwin   

Abraham Baldwin was a native of New England, and came to Connellsville about 1806. He was prominent in politics, church matters, and business. He manufactured the first carding-machines ever made in this section of country. His shop was on Baldwin’s Run, immediately south of the old burial-ground. The pond raised by his dam was the fishing and skating place of the boys of Connellsville in those days. On the same stream, farther up, he, with his son-in-law, Daniel S. Norton, built a four-story stone building, which they used as a cotton-factory. It was put in operation about 1812, and discontinued about four years later, when Norton removed to Ohio. John Stewart, Isaac Mears, and William Baisley were employes of Baldwin & Norton. The cotton-factory building passed into other hands, fell into disuse, and is now a ruin.

History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882, page 369. View the image of this page online - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.