The Wyoming Tribune
Tuesday, March 14, 1905
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Lander Pioneer Dies

Mrs. Noyles Baldwin, First White Woman in lander Valley, Succumbs to Old Age

Special to The Tribune

Lander, Wyo., March 14 - Mrs. Noyles Baldwin, wife of former Major Baldwin, one of Fremont county's earliest and most prominent pioneers, and mother of M. N. Baldwin, of the last Wyoming Legislature, died here Saturday morning, after a two weeks' illness of the Gripe.

She had sent for all of her children, two sons and seven daughters, all of whom were present at the time of her death.

Grandma Baldwin, as she was familiarly known to all, was born in New York, in 1832, and was united in marriage to Major Baldwin at San Francisco in 1855.

In the early 60s her husband was made major in the First Nevada Volunteers and was sent into the Lander valley in 1866, to rid the old stage route of Indians who at that time were a very serious menace to immigration and mail service. This was before even old Fort Brown was established where Lander now stands.

Mrs. Baldwin, then the mother of five children was the first white woman to enter the valley, and soon after their arrival, George L. Baldwin, now a prominent stockman of Lander, and the first white child born in the valley, was born in the present limits of Lander.

Major Baldwin did excellent service with his volunteers for several years, until he was replaced by the regulars when he retired to private business as a general merchant, in which vocation his son, M. N. Baldwin, succeeded him at the time of his death in 1893.

A very impressive funeral and interment were witnessed Sunday afternoon by a large concourse of people who gathered to pay their last sad respects to one of Wyoming's earliest and most respected pioneers.