Stephen Livingstone Baldwin was born in
Somerville,
Somerset,
New Jersey on January 11, 1835. He graduated at Concord Biblical Institute (modern-day
Boston University) in 1858. The same year he was appointed a missionary to
China under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He arrived at
Shanghai with Mrs. Baldwin in the latter part of 1858, and proceeded forthwith to his station at
Fuzhou, which he reached early in 1859. In the beginning of 1861, he left with his family for the
United States on account of Mrs. Baldwin's health, but she died on the voyage. Baldwin married again in America, and the next year, he was at Fuzhou again with his second wife,
Esther E. Baldwin, remaining till 1870. Upon his return to the United States, he held several pastorates, and was for the last 14 years of his life, recording secretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1900, he published
Foreign Missions of the Protestant Churches. Baldwin died of
typhoid fever on July 28, 1902, in
Brooklyn,
New York. == References ==