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Helen Gillespie Baldwin

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Helen Gillespie Baldwin, undated'
Courtesy of Jeannie Louise Gillespie Darrah
Helen Gillespie Baldwin, undated'
Courtesy of Jeannie Louise Gillespie Darrah

Born: c. 1896

Died: April 22, 1938

Married: Jerome Cowan (divorced), Harold Baldwin

Children: Robert Baldwin

Jerome Cowan
Courtesy of Jeannie Louise Gillespie Darrah

Helen Gillespie Baldwin was a daughter of Harriet Noble Gillespie and William J. Gillespie.  She was a nurse, a writer, played basketball and loved camping on Moose Pond. She married twice, first to movie actor, Jerome Cowan.  She died young, of breast cancer.