Baldwin, David C
merchant, legislator, was born Sept. 18, 1836, in Elyria, Ohio. He entered mercantile business with his father and others in Elyria, Ohio, in 1855, continuing therein until 1893. As first lieutenant in the one hundred days service he was actively engaged in some lively skirmishes in West Virginia, where John Brown located. He has been connected with the historical society at Cleveland, Ohio, as incorporator and trustee, and is the donor of a fine archæological collection from American and foreign sources. He was elected to the seventy-second Ohio general assembly as a republican.