Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin and Lily Bennett Baldwin seated outdoors, [1890s?], rephotographed [1939 or 1940?]
Description
Lucky Baldwin, in suit and hat, and 4th wife Lily Bennett Baldwin, in dark dress and hat, both seated outdoors on wooden bench, on dirt area near lawn, with trees in background, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., Photograph of print, Text from negative sleeve: Baldwin, Lucky. Print, Handwritten on negative: Lucky Baldwin & Wife, Possibly related to the article, “Howard Estate Battle Will Be Argued Today, Testimony on Mrs. Castro’s Claim Closes With Peep Into Life of Lucky Baldwin’s Widow.” Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 1940. Print. Quick glimpses of a lady of yesteryear came from the testimony of rebuttal witnesses yesterday as the hearing on Mrs. Mary Alice Castro’s petition to break the will of Mrs. Lily Baldwin Howard, widow of E.J. (Lucky) Baldwin, came to a close. … Mrs. Castro … asks the jury to find her the secret daughter of Mrs. Howard--then Lucky Baldwin’s young wife--who left her with Lydia and Silas Braffet on a small Agenda ranch 15 days after her birth Oct. 14, 1899. Should the jury determine that Mrs. Castro is Mrs. Howard’s daughter, the plump petitioner can demand half of her “mother’s” $443,000 estate. …, Edge of another photograph showing a tree, two women, and a child visible at right; top edges of 2 more photographs visible at bottom