This text was obtained via automated optical character recognition.
It has not been edited and may therefore contain several errors.
Mamoo: We are the two granddaughters of Albert Baldwin, Sr. , the one who came down here and married the Creole belle Arthemise Bouligny Baldwin. Alice: Arthemise BOULIGNY. She wasn't a Baldwin yet. Mamoo: Arthemise Bouligny, yes. Arthemise Bouligny became Mrs. Baldwin. And - Alice: Anyhow, it was amazing that he came down at that time. He did not fight on this side of either war. Yet there is no other comparison. He was a businessman. He came down here for business purposes. Mamoo: He came down here to make money. Alice: Hunh? Mamoo: He came down here really to make money. Alice: Well first of all he married into aristocracy. What would you say? A very prominent family. The Bouligny family which is now being considered one of THE families in the early beginnings of the city of New Orleans. Mamoo: Yah, right. Alice; And I don't know what he did all during the war. Mamoo: Well, I think that he came down with I understand medicines and things like that that were so hard to get and to give to anybody, no matter whether they were yankees or southerners. Alice: You want me to tell you what I think I know? Mamoo: Yes. Alice: I don't like to repeat it. But I think that he ran the blockade with his own ships, swift ships, to get quinine for the southern soldiers. Now, believe it or not, I don't know... Mamoo: Well, he probably did, that sounds very reasonable, very reasonable. Alice: And I' in sure he made a lot of money on it. Mamoo: Yah, and then he opened a hardware store because he saw that there were a Jtaibb of tools and implements for farming. 2
Baldwin Conversation-002