Baldwin, John D
journalist, congressman, author, was born Sept. 28, 1810, in North Stonington, Conn. In 1842 he became associated with the press, first in Hartford, and then in Boston, and was editor of the Daily Commonwealth, a writer for the Advertiser, and subsequently became the proprietor of the Worcester Spy. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1860; and in 1862 was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congress, and in 1866 was elected to the fortieth congress. For many years he was particularly devoted to the study of ancient history, and was the author of Pre- Historic Nations; Ancient America; and Raymond Hill and other poems. He died July 8, 1883, in Worcester, Mass.