1850 United States Federal Census:
Name: Henry Baldwin
Age: 20
Birth Year: ABT 1830
Birth Place: Ohio
Home in 1850: Black River, Lorain, Ohio
Gender: Male
Family Number: 1952
House Hold Members:
Sophia Baldwin age: 55
Henry Baldwin age: 20
Glover Baldwin age: 16
Hellen Miller age: 19
Henrietta Matson age: 12
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Henry Clay Baldwin drowned in Lake Erie on 25, Oct. 1851 off Long Point, Ontario, when the propeller ship "Henry Clay" (Sailing Detroit to Buffalo) was wrecked in a severe gale, killing 16 people - his body was never recovered.
Lake Disasters
The Propellers Henry Clay and Atlas were lost in a gale, on the 25th ult, off Long Point.
The Henry Clay left Detroit for Ogdensburgh with a full load of Flour, Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. When off Grand River it is supposed some of her freight rolled against engine, stopping it, and the Propeller fell into the trough of the sea. Her cabin was soon rolled off, the vessel elled and immediately turned keel up.
The persons lost, are G. Callard, master; O. Root, Clerk; ------ Dowd, mate; and one female passenger, and other persons to the number of sixteen, whose names are not known. The Buffalo Commercial gives the following particulars of the loss of the Clay, as communicated by the only survivor of the disaster:
“The gale increased in the night, and it supposed that as the Clay made Long Point a heavy sea struck her on her quarter, causing her to broach to and labor heavily in the troughs of the sea. She was soon a perfect wreck, and but one person of her crew and passengers has been saved. This one is an Irishman, who was a deck hand on board, named David Keefe, a single man. He says that after the propeller was disabled, the last he saw of Capt. Callard he and a lady passenger were lashed to the jib stay forward, and soon after, he asserts, the vessel capsized.”
“He and three others succeeded in reaching a portion of her deck, on which they floated till the brig John Malcolm have in sight, in the midst of the gale, and ran so near them as to heave them lines. He was the only, however, who was able to catch the line, and he was towed thro' the water nearly a mile before he was taken on board. The Malcolm was an old vessel, running before the gale, and could not put back to save the others. It is quite probable that all are lost.”
The Courier says:
“Capt. Callard was one of our old citizens, and one of the best seamen on the Lakes. He was formerly an officer in the Texan Navy, and was the inventor of the signal lanterus now in use, for distinguishing vessels at sea.”
The Cleveland Herald says:
“Mr. Orestes Root, Clerk of the Clay, was an old and esteemed resident of Black River, and well known to may of our citizens. Mr. Phillips, Engineer, and others of the crew, were also residents of Lorain County.”
The Propeller Atlas went ashore on the same day, above Grand River, Canada West, and has gone to pieces. No lives were lost.
Source: Norwalk Weekly Reflector
Date: 28 October 1851
Name: Henry Baldwin
Age: 20
Birth Year: ABT 1830
Birth Place: Ohio
Home in 1850: Black River, Lorain, Ohio
Gender: Male
Family Number: 1952
House Hold Members:
Sophia Baldwin age: 55
Henry Baldwin age: 20
Glover Baldwin age: 16
Hellen Miller age: 19
Henrietta Matson age: 12
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Henry Clay Baldwin drowned in Lake Erie on 25, Oct. 1851 off Long Point, Ontario, when the propeller ship "Henry Clay" (Sailing Detroit to Buffalo) was wrecked in a severe gale, killing 16 people - his body was never recovered.
Lake Disasters
The Propellers Henry Clay and Atlas were lost in a gale, on the 25th ult, off Long Point.
The Henry Clay left Detroit for Ogdensburgh with a full load of Flour, Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. When off Grand River it is supposed some of her freight rolled against engine, stopping it, and the Propeller fell into the trough of the sea. Her cabin was soon rolled off, the vessel elled and immediately turned keel up.
The persons lost, are G. Callard, master; O. Root, Clerk; ------ Dowd, mate; and one female passenger, and other persons to the number of sixteen, whose names are not known. The Buffalo Commercial gives the following particulars of the loss of the Clay, as communicated by the only survivor of the disaster:
“The gale increased in the night, and it supposed that as the Clay made Long Point a heavy sea struck her on her quarter, causing her to broach to and labor heavily in the troughs of the sea. She was soon a perfect wreck, and but one person of her crew and passengers has been saved. This one is an Irishman, who was a deck hand on board, named David Keefe, a single man. He says that after the propeller was disabled, the last he saw of Capt. Callard he and a lady passenger were lashed to the jib stay forward, and soon after, he asserts, the vessel capsized.”
“He and three others succeeded in reaching a portion of her deck, on which they floated till the brig John Malcolm have in sight, in the midst of the gale, and ran so near them as to heave them lines. He was the only, however, who was able to catch the line, and he was towed thro' the water nearly a mile before he was taken on board. The Malcolm was an old vessel, running before the gale, and could not put back to save the others. It is quite probable that all are lost.”
The Courier says:
“Capt. Callard was one of our old citizens, and one of the best seamen on the Lakes. He was formerly an officer in the Texan Navy, and was the inventor of the signal lanterus now in use, for distinguishing vessels at sea.”
The Cleveland Herald says:
“Mr. Orestes Root, Clerk of the Clay, was an old and esteemed resident of Black River, and well known to may of our citizens. Mr. Phillips, Engineer, and others of the crew, were also residents of Lorain County.”
The Propeller Atlas went ashore on the same day, above Grand River, Canada West, and has gone to pieces. No lives were lost.
Source: Norwalk Weekly Reflector
Date: 28 October 1851
1850 United States Federal Census:
Name: Henry Baldwin
Age: 20
Birth Year: ABT 1830
Birth Place: Ohio
Home in 1850: Black River, Lorain, Ohio
Gender: Male
Family Number: 1952
House Hold Members:
Sophia Baldwin age: 55
Henry Baldwin age: 20
Glover Baldwin age: 16
Hellen Miller age: 19
Henrietta Matson age: 12
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Henry Clay Baldwin drowned in Lake Erie on 25, Oct. 1851 off Long Point, Ontario, when the propeller ship "Henry Clay" (Sailing Detroit to Buffalo) was wrecked in a severe gale, killing 16 people - his body was never recovered.
Lake Disasters
The Propellers Henry Clay and Atlas were lost in a gale, on the 25th ult, off Long Point.
The Henry Clay left Detroit for Ogdensburgh with a full load of Flour, Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. When off Grand River it is supposed some of her freight rolled against engine, stopping it, and the Propeller fell into the trough of the sea. Her cabin was soon rolled off, the vessel elled and immediately turned keel up.
The persons lost, are G. Callard, master; O. Root, Clerk; ------ Dowd, mate; and one female passenger, and other persons to the number of sixteen, whose names are not known. The Buffalo Commercial gives the following particulars of the loss of the Clay, as communicated by the only survivor of the disaster:
“The gale increased in the night, and it supposed that as the Clay made Long Point a heavy sea struck her on her quarter, causing her to broach to and labor heavily in the troughs of the sea. She was soon a perfect wreck, and but one person of her crew and passengers has been saved. This one is an Irishman, who was a deck hand on board, named David Keefe, a single man. He says that after the propeller was disabled, the last he saw of Capt. Callard he and a lady passenger were lashed to the jib stay forward, and soon after, he asserts, the vessel capsized.”
“He and three others succeeded in reaching a portion of her deck, on which they floated till the brig John Malcolm have in sight, in the midst of the gale, and ran so near them as to heave them lines. He was the only, however, who was able to catch the line, and he was towed thro' the water nearly a mile before he was taken on board. The Malcolm was an old vessel, running before the gale, and could not put back to save the others. It is quite probable that all are lost.”
The Courier says:
“Capt. Callard was one of our old citizens, and one of the best seamen on the Lakes. He was formerly an officer in the Texan Navy, and was the inventor of the signal lanterus now in use, for distinguishing vessels at sea.”
The Cleveland Herald says:
“Mr. Orestes Root, Clerk of the Clay, was an old and esteemed resident of Black River, and well known to may of our citizens. Mr. Phillips, Engineer, and others of the crew, were also residents of Lorain County.”
The Propeller Atlas went ashore on the same day, above Grand River, Canada West, and has gone to pieces. No lives were lost.
Source: Norwalk Weekly Reflector
Date: 28 October 1851
Name: Henry Baldwin
Age: 20
Birth Year: ABT 1830
Birth Place: Ohio
Home in 1850: Black River, Lorain, Ohio
Gender: Male
Family Number: 1952
House Hold Members:
Sophia Baldwin age: 55
Henry Baldwin age: 20
Glover Baldwin age: 16
Hellen Miller age: 19
Henrietta Matson age: 12
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Henry Clay Baldwin drowned in Lake Erie on 25, Oct. 1851 off Long Point, Ontario, when the propeller ship "Henry Clay" (Sailing Detroit to Buffalo) was wrecked in a severe gale, killing 16 people - his body was never recovered.
Lake Disasters
The Propellers Henry Clay and Atlas were lost in a gale, on the 25th ult, off Long Point.
The Henry Clay left Detroit for Ogdensburgh with a full load of Flour, Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. When off Grand River it is supposed some of her freight rolled against engine, stopping it, and the Propeller fell into the trough of the sea. Her cabin was soon rolled off, the vessel elled and immediately turned keel up.
The persons lost, are G. Callard, master; O. Root, Clerk; ------ Dowd, mate; and one female passenger, and other persons to the number of sixteen, whose names are not known. The Buffalo Commercial gives the following particulars of the loss of the Clay, as communicated by the only survivor of the disaster:
“The gale increased in the night, and it supposed that as the Clay made Long Point a heavy sea struck her on her quarter, causing her to broach to and labor heavily in the troughs of the sea. She was soon a perfect wreck, and but one person of her crew and passengers has been saved. This one is an Irishman, who was a deck hand on board, named David Keefe, a single man. He says that after the propeller was disabled, the last he saw of Capt. Callard he and a lady passenger were lashed to the jib stay forward, and soon after, he asserts, the vessel capsized.”
“He and three others succeeded in reaching a portion of her deck, on which they floated till the brig John Malcolm have in sight, in the midst of the gale, and ran so near them as to heave them lines. He was the only, however, who was able to catch the line, and he was towed thro' the water nearly a mile before he was taken on board. The Malcolm was an old vessel, running before the gale, and could not put back to save the others. It is quite probable that all are lost.”
The Courier says:
“Capt. Callard was one of our old citizens, and one of the best seamen on the Lakes. He was formerly an officer in the Texan Navy, and was the inventor of the signal lanterus now in use, for distinguishing vessels at sea.”
The Cleveland Herald says:
“Mr. Orestes Root, Clerk of the Clay, was an old and esteemed resident of Black River, and well known to may of our citizens. Mr. Phillips, Engineer, and others of the crew, were also residents of Lorain County.”
The Propeller Atlas went ashore on the same day, above Grand River, Canada West, and has gone to pieces. No lives were lost.
Source: Norwalk Weekly Reflector
Date: 28 October 1851
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