Stephen Livingstone Baldwin

This article is about the Methodist missionary stationed in Foochow. For the Presbyterian missionary also stationed in Foochow, see Caleb Cook Baldwin.
Stephen Livingstone Baldwin

Missionary to China
Born January 11, 1835
Somerville, Somerset, New Jersey
Died July 28, 1902 (aged 67)
Brooklyn, New York

Rev. Stephen Livingstone Baldwin (simplified Chinese: 保灵; traditional Chinese: 保靈; Pinyin: Bǎolíng; Foochow Romanized: Bō̤-lìng; January 11, 1835 - July 28, 1902) was an American missionary to China by the American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission. His ministerial life covered a period of forty-four years, half of which was spent at Foochow.

Life

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, South in the Southern States of America. He arrived at Shanghai with Mrs. Baldwin in the latter part of 1858, and proceeded forthwith to his station at Foochow, 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 Foochow again with his second wife, 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.

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