Baldwin, Joseph Glover (21 January 1815–30 September 1864), attorney and author, was born in Friendly Grove Factory, Virginia, the son of Joseph Clarke Baldwin, a mill owner, and Eliza Cook. He was educated at Staunton Academy (Virginia), where he learned Latin and read widely in English and American authors. He left school at fourteen and became a clerk in the chancery court. This experience turned him toward a legal career, and after private study and law school he qualified as a lawyer at twenty. Baldwin also worked for a time as a newspaperman in Virginia and suffered a disappointment in love. In March 1836 he set out for the “Southwest”—specifically Alabama and Mississippi....
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Baldwin, Joseph Glover (1815-1864), attorney and author
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Hooper, Johnson Jones (1815-1862), author and lawyer
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Hooper, Johnson Jones (09 June 1815–07 June 1862), author and lawyer, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, the son of Archibald Maclaine Hooper, a lawyer and newspaper editor, and Charlotte DeBerniere. The elder Hooper’s financial distress cut short the formal education of his youngest son, who from ages eleven to seventeen worked as printer’s devil in the newspaper his father edited, the ...
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Jones, Hamilton C. (1798-1868), humorist, lawyer, and journalist
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Jones, Hamilton C. (23 August 1798–10 September 1868), humorist, lawyer, and journalist, was born Hamilton Chamberlain Jones in Greenville County, Virginia, the son of William Jones and Martha Loftin. His father, about whom little is known, died while Jones was still an infant, soon after the family’s move to Stokes County, North Carolina. His mother then married Colonel James Martin, a wealthy and politically influential landowner and brother to ...
