Emily Pitkin Perkins

Emily Pitkin (Perkins) Baldwin, (1 January, 1796 – 29 January, 1874), was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Enoch Perkins and Hannah Pitkin. On 25 October, 1820 she married Roger Sherman Baldwin, who became the Connecticut, Governor in 1844 and US Senator in 1847. Emily and Roger had nine children.

Children

# Edward Law Baldwin (1 October, 1822 – 6 July, 1848)
# Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin (born 8 August, 1824 date of death unknown)
# Roger Sherman Baldwin (4 July, 1826 – 12 November, 1856)
# Ebenezer Simeon Baldwin (4 March, 1828 – 28 April, 1836)
# Henrietta Perkins Baldwin (born 3 April, 1830 date of death unknown)
# George William Baldwin (24 April, 1832 date of death unknown)
# Emily Frances Baldwin (13 December, 1834 – 27 April, 1836)
# Ebenezer Charles Baldwin (17 September, 1837 – 10 December, 1937
# Simeon Eben Baldwin (5 February, 1840 – 30 January, 1927)

Ancestry

Emily was an aunt by marriage of Edward Everett Hale, and the mother of Connecticut Governor Simeon Eben Baldwin.In 1786 her father, Enoch Perkins, began what has become the oldest law firm in continuous practice in the United States, now known as Howard, Kohn, Sprague & FitzGerald; and his original law practice shingle is one of the firm's most prized heirlooms. In 1820 Enoch's son Thomas Clapp Perkins joined his father's law practice. Thomas Perkins married Mary Foote Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher and the sister of author Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1855 Thomas Clapp Perkins's son Charles expanded the firm's litigation practice and became widely recognized as one of the State Capital's finest trial lawyers.

Charles Perkins also became a close friend and legal counselor to Samuel Clemens, known to most by his pen name Mark Twain. In 1889 Charles Perkins' son Arthur continued the Perkins family stewardship of the firm until his death in 1932. Arthur Perkins also was a founding member of the Appalachian Trail Association and became known as the "Father of the Appalachian Trail," which spans from Georgia to Maine.

Emily was also the niece of US Representative Timothy Pitkin, the granddaughter of the Rev. Timothy Pitkin (Yale 1747), great-granddaughter Governor William Pitkin and the Reverend Thomas Clap, who was the fifth President of Yale College; and a descendant of Governors George Wyllys and John Haynes of Connecticut and Governor Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony.

References

* [http://www.familysearch.org familysearch.org] Accessed September 4, 2007
* [http://www.cslib.org/gov/baldwinrs.htm Roger Sherman Baldwin - Connecticut State Library] Accessed September 4, 2007
* [http://www.cslib.org/gov/baldwins.htm Simeon Eben Baldwin - Connecticut State Library] Accessed September 4, 2007

External links

* [http://www.cslib.org/memorials/perkinst.htm Thomas Clapp Perkins - Connecticut State Library]
* [http://www.cslib.org/westernreserve.htm Research Guide to Connecticut's "Western Lands" or "Western Reserve"]