Veteran China Hand Celebrates 59 Years Mrs, Margaret Mary Baldwin, the oldest foreign resident in Shanghai, celebrated her 90th birthday on} August and her 7th year, 90 which have been continuous, in the Par East, Mrs, Baldwin was born in Exeter, Devonshire, on August 9, 1840, and, after spending her early gitthood in Exeter, the family moved to Gos port, 'Hampshire. She came to China by one of the earliest P. & O. steamers, the Poonah, and not by' sailing boat as popularly supposed. Upon arrival here, she was welcome:
into the hospitable home of the veteran, missionary couple, Dr. and Mrs. J. Young Allen, where she ived until after her marriage to Capt. Alfred Baldwin in Trinity Church (now Holy Trinity Cathedral) on October 17, 1863. Capt. Baldwin owned a compradore store in Broadway, opposite the Old Dock Although full of energy, the bride's health soon began to fail under the trying cond of China climate and sur hor-husband and friends regretfully decided that it would be impossible Yor Mrs, Baldwin to live in China Arrangements were made for her to yetwmn to England but, only a few Gays before sailing, she refused to Yoave China, The ship sailed with-ut het and it went to the bottom of the soa and was never again heard from, all on board being lost.
In 1869, due to continued illness, Mrs, Baldwin went to England and, her health having been restored in 'a fow months, che went to South America to join her husband, he having st out here and bought a third interest in a sailing vessel, the Cobang. Within five months of her arrival at Callo, South America Mrs, Baldwin's husband died, at the age of 36, of rheumatic fever which hho had contracted some years previously in Siber A friend, also a widows, came out front England and joined Mrs. Baldwin in South America only a wu pile of weeks before Capt. Bald-in's death and these two young svomen bravely went together on the sailing ship and continued to manage. the business: until the charter]
red_ some five or six months lular. Then they ¥eturned to England, remaining thave only a few months before coming back to China 1871, since which time Mrs. Bald. win had lived continuously in Shanghai, making only brief visits to Japan and the outports 'Although unable to bear either the sermon or the music, Mrs, Bald~ win attends the Union Ciurch every' Sunday morning, in.the cold and heat and in stormy weather, and ghe often goes in the evenings. She is a constant attendant at the
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