There is a biographical sketch in the "History of Dane County, Wis-1906" for Lloyd M. Baldwin, of Belleville, is the son of Julius and Clara (McLaughlin) Baldwin; the former came to Wisconsin with his parents about 50 years ago; they came from Canada, settled in Dane County and engaged in farming. Mr. Julius Baldwin still owns the old homestead in Oregon township where his father settled, although he gave up the active management of it a few years since and made his home in the village of Brooklyn. Mrs. Clare (McLaughlin) Baldwin is a native of Ohio, daughter of W.W. McLaughlin, who came from Ohio to Wisconsin nearly 70 years ago, when his daughter was a baby. He settled in the town of Brooklyn, Green County, and there spent his life. He was one of the very earliest of the pioneers who faced the hardships incident to life in an unbroken forest wilderness, far from the base of supplies, and with only the most rudimentary means of communication and transportation. The difficulties of the situation were increased for him by the death of his wife which occurred before he left Ohio for what was then the new northwest. He was a man who was actively interested in public affairs and was frequently called upon to fill local offices. Mr. L.M. Baldwin is one of a family of seven children, all living except one: they are Charles, of Madison; Clinton, of Brooklyn(WI); Lloyd M, of Belleville; Mimmie married P.A. HAYNES; Myra (deceased); Boyd, on the old homestead in Oregon(WI); Daisy at home in Brooklyn(WI). Mr L.M. Baldwin passed his boyhood on the farm and amid the usual surroundings, advantages and disadvantages of rural life; when he was 21 he began life for himself as a clerk in Gray’s general store of Brooklyn. After four years of commercial life he engaged in farming for two years and then returned to his former employment and position, where he remained three years longer; he again took up farming as an occupation, this time going west and settling in Spink county, SD which was his home for eight years, at the end of which he returned to Brooklyn and stayed one year before engaging in his present business as a meat dealer and butcher in Belleville. There he has a finely equipped market, and since beginning his enterprise in 1902 has built up a flourishing trade, not only in the village, but, by means of his wagon, he supplies a large demand among the rural population. He was married, first, to Miss May L. Gray, of Oregon, who was born in the town of Brooklyn, Green County. She died in October 1891. After her death, Mr. Baldwin married Mrs. Rosa Upton, a native of Dane County. They have one child, Harold Lloyd, aged two years. Mr. Baldwin is a member of the M.W.A. and Loyal Americans.