John Joseph Costello was born on February 23, 1846, in Kings County, Ireland, the son of Michael and Bridget Phelan Costello. John entered the Novitiate at Montreal on November 8, 1859, at the age of thirteen. He received the habit and religious name of Brother Baldwin on December 25, 1859. His first assignment came in September of 1860 in Baltimore, Maryland, and two years later in New York. In 1865 he was assigned to the orphanage at Utica and in 1867 at Christian Brothers College in St. Louis, where he continued his collegiate studies. Five years later he was assigned to St. John's Orphanage in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and in 1875 to Santa Fe. He returned to the mid-west in 1881 and was assigned to CBC in St. Joseph, Missouri, and in 1884 to CBC, St. Louis. Brother Baldwin came to CBC in Memphis in 1885 and to St. Patrick's High School in 1886 where the following year he was named Sub-Director. He returned to De La Salle in New York in 1889 and died there in 1895 at age forty-nine, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for thirty-six years.
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