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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          OSRO BALDWIN, the pioneer settler, of Bear Grove, came from the
       Western Reserve of Ohio, and located on section 32, in the fall of
       1855. He erected a "dug out," in which he lived till a short time
       before his death (which occurred in 1858) when he built a log cabin.
       The farm is now owned by J. W. BROWN, of Atlantic. After the death
       of MR. BALDWIN, his wife went to Colorado, where she died about the
       year 1875. There was a family of two boys and two girls. The younger
       son died on the farm in 1858, and the other, BRUCE, returned to
       Ohio. One of the girls married a man by the name of SACKET and
       removed to Colorado, her sister going with her. OSRO BALDWIN was the
       uncle of CHARLES BALDWIN, the county clerk, who was drowned in 1858.

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