Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-20
REV.. DR.. BALDWIN
PASSES AWAY At
ACE Of 81 YEARS
Was Noted Missionary and
Among Oldest Graduates
of Princeton.

Passing peacefully away while asleep,
the Rev. Dr. Caleb Cook Baldwin, 81
a old. passed away yesterday
morning at the residence of his son,
Albert B. Baldwin, 80 Chelsea place,
East Orange. The venerable clergy
man was one of the early Christian
missionaries in China and spent half a
century Of active service in the Orient.
DR.. Baldwin, who was one of the old
est living graduates of Princeton Col
lege, having been in the class of 1916,
was the father of ten children, nine of
whom were born in China. With his
wife, who assisted him in his work in
Toochow, he compiled a dictionary of
5000 pages in the principal dialect of
southeastern China, and it has been
adopted as a standard in tina territory,
being of great value to commercial in
terests. He also, with DR.. Maclay, an
other missionary, translated the entire
Bible into Chinese, and subsequently
DR.. Baldwin revised the translation to
correspond with the revision by an
American board of the Bible used in
this country.
DR.. Baldwin was born in Bloomfield
April 1, 1920, and took the course in
the Princeton Theological Seminary
after his graduation from Princeton
College. He married Harriet Fair
child. Of Bloomfield. and the two, in
1s4S, soon after his ordination, were
sent to the Foochow post by the Amer
lean board of missions of the Presby-
terrain Church. The hostility of the ma
tives toward foreigners was so great
then that DIR. Baldwin. following the
birth of his first daughter, who Is Mrs.
Harriet Gertrude Gerry, of "a Sussex
avenue, East Orange, felt it necessary
to build a high wall of masonry around
his home to protect the child from the
treacherous Chinese.
There Is no record of any direct at
tempt to do violence to DR.. Baldwin or
the members of his big family, but they
were in Foochow at a time when sucn
attempts were made against other mis-
sionaries. On one occasion the natives
put ground glass in the wells from
which missionaries in the colony where
DIR. Baldwin lived drew their drinking
water in a plan to kill the white men
and women. When DIR. Baldwin had
been in the country several years the
natives grew to love him for his help
to them and his charity, and he tore
down the wall.
He returned to America only three
times, coming back in 1896 to remain.
Soon afterward his wife died. -Four Of
the missionary's children survive. They
are, besides Albert B. Baldwin and
Mrs. Gerry, Mrs. w. S. Fairchild, oc
1870 Ridgewood avenue, Glen Ridge, and
Mrs. Whitman c. Robbins, of Durham,
South Africa. The funeral will be held
at 2 o'clock next Saturday afternoon
from the Chelsea place home.
Or. Baldwin was a vigorous man un-
I'll almost the end of his life. I'm
til recently he was a conspicuous figure
in the streets of East Orange,
riding a tricycle. (which he operated
with no assistance and on which he
went all about the city unattended, as
almost all the policemen knew him and
helped him over crossings. He was I
f~orceful preacher and was accredited
with having started the first campaign
against the use of opium in China In
recognition of his literary efforts the
Baldwin Library was built in Foochow.
The aged clergyman in his final ill
@ess thought of his associations in the
far East. One of his expressions when
dying were: Yes, my body is in
America. but my spirit is in China"
In his last letter to his eldest daughter
he wrote; I'm my rides L cross the long
bridge, but the water is ~gurgling blithe-
ly and laughs up into my face M 1
draw, at pleasure, d%raughts of a liv-
ing water" 4
The first book written by the clergy
man, 1.-THE Catechism of Christian Doc
%trine," was published by the Tract
Company and was widely distributed.
He was the author of a number of other
prominent works. DR.. Baldwin had
good health until stricken with liver
trouble and had not enjoyed his cycling
trips in the past six months.