W. O. Baldwin doc Memoir (Classic Reprint)

United States Senator, which position he resigned when Alabama passed the ordinance of secession. William Baldwin seldest son, Marion Augustus Baldwin, was born in Georgia, and removed with his parents into Alabama in i Si6; he was A ttorney-G eneral of Alabama from 1847 to 1865, and one of the ablest lawyers as well as the most popular man in the State. His father died when Dr. Baldwin was nine years of age, leaving his widow with seven children, of whom he was the second son; he received his education at an academy in Montgomery county, near his mothers plantation, conducted by A dison H. Sample, a man of great reputation in his day, a splendid linguist and a finished scholar. At sixteen he commenced to read medicine in the office of Dr. Mc Leod, the leading physician in Montgomery, and shortly afterwards entered the Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in which institution he became the private pupil of Dr. Charles Caldwell and Dr. L. P. Yandell, then in conjunction with the eminent surgeon and lithotomist. Dr. B. W. Dudley, professors in that university. At the unprecedented age of eighteen, he received his degree of M. D., a fact much regretted in after life when the importance of more extended study was more vividly realized. Some years afterwards, disagreements having arisen between the members of the faculty, the professors, with but few exceptions, resigned and established the Medical Department of the University of Louisville, and the Transylvania University became extinct. His mother having so large a family t-o raise unaided, was somewhat cramped in her resources, and found it impossible to give more than one of her sons a university education, and to that the elder brother was naturally entitled. William, however, had all but completed his arrangements to enter the University of Virginia, when the want of adequate means interposed an obstacl(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)