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BALDWIN. BALDWIN. 33 BALDWIN, John Stanton, son of John Denison and Lemira (Hathaway) Baldwin, was born in New Haven, New Haven county, Conn., January 6, 1834. He attended the public schools of Con- necticut, the Hartford high school, and finished with the state normal school. He had fitted for Yale College, but was obliged to relinquish his college course, from lack of funds. Mr. Baldwin learned the printer's trade in Hartford, and was first called, at the age of nineteen, to the business which he has ever since followed, when his father became editor and proprietor of the "Boston Daily Commonwealth." He was placed in charge of the business office, where he remained five years. These were the years of the execution of the infamous " fugitive slave act " which stirred Massachusetts to its centre. The " Commonwealth " was the organ of the men who bitterly opposed this act, and its office was the daily rendez- vous of such men as Theodore Parker, Charles Sumner, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Wendell Phillips, Henry Wilson, Dr. Samuel G. Howe, William Clallin, fohn A. Andrew, Anson Burlingame, and others illustrious in the history of the anti-slavery agitation in Massachusetts. It was amid these as- sociations that Mr. Baldwin became a voter and formed the convictions which shaped his subsequent political course. In 1S59 he was associated with his father and brother in the publication of " The Worcester Daily Spy," and is now the senior proprietor and editor of that paper. Mr. Baldwin was captain in the 51st Massachusetts regiment, where he served during the war of the rebellion ; was a member of the House of Representatives from Worcester, 187 1 and 1872 ; has been common councilman and member of Wor- cester school board ; is a member of the Church of the Unity, Worcester, and su- perintendent of its Sunday-school. He is also connected with several social and charitable organizations. He is a mem- ber of the Worcester Club, the Quinsiga- mond Boat Club, the Massachusetts Club, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and the Society of the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Baldwin was married in Worcester, October 19, 1863, to Emily, daughter of Albert and Mary (Eaton) Brown. Of this union are six children : Mary Eleanor, Robert Stanton, Alice Hathaway, John Denison, Henry Brown, and Emily Clinton Baldwin. BALDWIN, William Henry, son of Henry and Mary (Brackett) Baldwin, was born in Brighton [now Boston], October 20, 1826. He received his educational training in the public and private schools of his native place. His first business experience was with the firm of Kelly & Spring, dry goods, Brighton, with whom he remained about four years ; next with James M. Beebe & Co., importers and dry goods jobbers, Bos- ton, and afterwards with Gannett, Balch & Co., in the same business in the same city. Mr. Gannett was a former partner in the firm of James M. Beebe & Co. Mr. Bald- win remained with this firm until April, 1850, when the firm of Baldwin, Baxter & Curry was organized, importers and job- bers of woolens. In 1858 Mr. Baxter died, and the business was continued under the firm name of Baldwin & Curry until July, 1865, when Mr. Baldwin disposed of his interest in the concern and engaged in the dry goods commission business, in which he remained until April, 186S. In the winter of 1S67-68 it was decided to resume the work of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union — organized 1S51, incorporated rS52 — which had been interrupted and temporarily discontinued on account of the civil war. At a meet- ing of the life-members and friends of this organization, held April 15, 1868, a board of government was elected, the choice being made of Mr. Baldwin, without previous consultation with him as to the use of his name, as president of the board. Mr. Baldwin, after some hesitation — being then in active business — accepted, with the full intention of re-engaging in business at the close of the Union year ; but he became so deeply interested in the work of the Union, its growth and success, that he has remained in the position of president for the period now covering over twenty-one years. The membership of the Union April 1, 1889 (date of last annual report), was 5,165. Mr. Baldwin has been actively identi- fied with many organizations and societies in Boston — religious, philanthropic, and others. At the present time he is president of the " Children's Mission to the Children of the Destitute," Boston ; director in the " Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals;" director in the Old Boston School Boys' Association ; " trustee Franklin Savings Bank, vice-presi- dent of the Unitarian Church Temperance Society (National) ; also a member of the