Nashua, N. H., Oct. 13. Life Baldwin, 80, for many years known as the "Human Suction Pump," appearing with circuses and at museums, died last Thursday morning at the Hunt Home for the Aged Couples, to which he was admitted in December 1907. He leaves no known relatives.
-- Billboard, October 23, 1915
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The Hindoo giant brothers and their wives are attracting great attention in the curiosity hall of Huber's Fourteenth Street Museum, but they are only one of the many features of interest to be seen here. Among the others are... Life Baldwin, the human suction pump...
Published in the New York Times September 9, 1894
Page 4... Life Baldwin, the human suction pump, whose tongue sticks to about everything....
Published in the Boston Post,Boston, Massachusetts,Thursday, August 16, 1894
Worth's Museum -- A Human Pump. A remarkable novelty and a unique diversion of the human tongue from the ordinary is seen in Baldwin, the "human suction pump". By his suction properties and powers he lifts with ease goodly sized stones, bottles, lumps of ice, milk cans and drags a barrow of coal with his tongue....
Published in the New York Press April 2, 1893
(Although the Obituary states that he was 80 years old making his Year of Birth approximately 1835, his 1910 Federal Census Record lists him as being 65 which makes his Year of Birth 1845)
Update: Thanks to member Anonymous (#47536758) for the following information. Life goes on!:
Source for birth date
1.)Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records,
1620-1988 for Baldwin
Cambridge Vital Records Page 34
2.) MASS State Census for Cambridge 1855
Baldwin, Asa R age 62
Baldwin, Mary age 51
Baldwin, Joseph age 12
Baldwin, Life age 8
3.)The Baldwin Genealogy, from 1500 to 1881
page 656
-- Billboard, October 23, 1915
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The Hindoo giant brothers and their wives are attracting great attention in the curiosity hall of Huber's Fourteenth Street Museum, but they are only one of the many features of interest to be seen here. Among the others are... Life Baldwin, the human suction pump...
Published in the New York Times September 9, 1894
Page 4... Life Baldwin, the human suction pump, whose tongue sticks to about everything....
Published in the Boston Post,Boston, Massachusetts,Thursday, August 16, 1894
Worth's Museum -- A Human Pump. A remarkable novelty and a unique diversion of the human tongue from the ordinary is seen in Baldwin, the "human suction pump". By his suction properties and powers he lifts with ease goodly sized stones, bottles, lumps of ice, milk cans and drags a barrow of coal with his tongue....
Published in the New York Press April 2, 1893
(Although the Obituary states that he was 80 years old making his Year of Birth approximately 1835, his 1910 Federal Census Record lists him as being 65 which makes his Year of Birth 1845)
Update: Thanks to member Anonymous (#47536758) for the following information. Life goes on!:
Source for birth date
1.)Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records,
1620-1988 for Baldwin
Cambridge Vital Records Page 34
2.) MASS State Census for Cambridge 1855
Baldwin, Asa R age 62
Baldwin, Mary age 51
Baldwin, Joseph age 12
Baldwin, Life age 8
3.)The Baldwin Genealogy, from 1500 to 1881
page 656
Nashua, N. H., Oct. 13. Life Baldwin, 80, for many years known as the "Human Suction Pump," appearing with circuses and at museums, died last Thursday morning at the Hunt Home for the Aged Couples, to which he was admitted in December 1907. He leaves no known relatives.
-- Billboard, October 23, 1915
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The Hindoo giant brothers and their wives are attracting great attention in the curiosity hall of Huber's Fourteenth Street Museum, but they are only one of the many features of interest to be seen here. Among the others are... Life Baldwin, the human suction pump...
Published in the New York Times September 9, 1894
Page 4... Life Baldwin, the human suction pump, whose tongue sticks to about everything....
Published in the Boston Post,Boston, Massachusetts,Thursday, August 16, 1894
Worth's Museum -- A Human Pump. A remarkable novelty and a unique diversion of the human tongue from the ordinary is seen in Baldwin, the "human suction pump". By his suction properties and powers he lifts with ease goodly sized stones, bottles, lumps of ice, milk cans and drags a barrow of coal with his tongue....
Published in the New York Press April 2, 1893
(Although the Obituary states that he was 80 years old making his Year of Birth approximately 1835, his 1910 Federal Census Record lists him as being 65 which makes his Year of Birth 1845)
Update: Thanks to member Anonymous (#47536758) for the following information. Life goes on!:
Source for birth date
1.)Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records,
1620-1988 for Baldwin
Cambridge Vital Records Page 34
2.) MASS State Census for Cambridge 1855
Baldwin, Asa R age 62
Baldwin, Mary age 51
Baldwin, Joseph age 12
Baldwin, Life age 8
3.)The Baldwin Genealogy, from 1500 to 1881
page 656
-- Billboard, October 23, 1915
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The Hindoo giant brothers and their wives are attracting great attention in the curiosity hall of Huber's Fourteenth Street Museum, but they are only one of the many features of interest to be seen here. Among the others are... Life Baldwin, the human suction pump...
Published in the New York Times September 9, 1894
Page 4... Life Baldwin, the human suction pump, whose tongue sticks to about everything....
Published in the Boston Post,Boston, Massachusetts,Thursday, August 16, 1894
Worth's Museum -- A Human Pump. A remarkable novelty and a unique diversion of the human tongue from the ordinary is seen in Baldwin, the "human suction pump". By his suction properties and powers he lifts with ease goodly sized stones, bottles, lumps of ice, milk cans and drags a barrow of coal with his tongue....
Published in the New York Press April 2, 1893
(Although the Obituary states that he was 80 years old making his Year of Birth approximately 1835, his 1910 Federal Census Record lists him as being 65 which makes his Year of Birth 1845)
Update: Thanks to member Anonymous (#47536758) for the following information. Life goes on!:
Source for birth date
1.)Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records,
1620-1988 for Baldwin
Cambridge Vital Records Page 34
2.) MASS State Census for Cambridge 1855
Baldwin, Asa R age 62
Baldwin, Mary age 51
Baldwin, Joseph age 12
Baldwin, Life age 8
3.)The Baldwin Genealogy, from 1500 to 1881
page 656
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