Baker, William H – Baldwin, George Van Nest
Baker, William H
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1827, in Lenox, N. Y. He removed with his parents to Oswego county in 1829, and received his education at the common schools. He became a mechanic and then a school teacher; studied law, and came to the bar in 1851. In 1862 was elected district attorney for Oswego county; reelected in 1866, and in 1874 was chosen a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress.
Baker, William Mumford
clergyman, author, was born June 27, 1825, in Washington, D. C. He was a popular novelist who was a presbyterian clergyman in the southwest until 1870, and afterwards the pastor of a church in Boston. He was a vigorous writer of considerable originality, whose earlier works possess historic interest as pictures of a now past stage of civilization in the southern states. He was the author of Inside a Chronicle of Secession; The Virginians in Texas; Oak Mot; The New Timothy; Mose Evans; His Majesty Myself; Blessed St. Certainty; Thirlmore; Carter Quarterman; A Year Worth Living; Colonel Dunwoddie: Millionaire; The Making of a Man; The Ten Theophanies: the Manifestations of Christ before His Birth in Bethlehem; and John Westacott, a juvenile tale. He died Aug. 20, 1883, in South Boston, Mass.
Baker, William Spohn
antiquarian, author, was born April 17, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pa. He possesses a collection of engraved portraits of George Washington which is the most complete that is known; and his number of medals of Washington is second only to that of William S. Appleton, of Boston; while his collection of biographies of Washington is the most noted in existence. He is the author of Origin and Antiquity of Engraving; American Engravers and their Works; William Sharp, Engraver, and His Works; Engraved Portraits of Washington; Medallic Portraits of Washington; Character Portraits of Washington; Bibliotheca Washingtoniana; and Itinerary of George Washington.
Balbach, Edward
smelter, refiner, inventor, was born March 19, 1804, in Germany. He patented a de-silverizing process, which has completely revolutionized the smelting of gold and silver in this country and in Europe, and which brought to his works a continual stream of consignments of gold and silver ores from all the western states and territories and Mexico, and afterward incorporated the business, with himself as president, as The Balbach Smelting and Refining Co. of Newark, N. J. He died Oct. 14, 1890.
Balbach, Edward
metallurgist, inventor, was born July 4, 1839, in Germany. In 1864 he obtained letters patent for a new de-silverizing process for argentiferous lead, which was afterward known as the Balbach Process. He also invented the water jacket used for smelting and refining furnaces. In 1891 he was appointed president of the Balbach Smelting and Refining Co.
Balbach, Leopold
metallurgist, was born March 17, 1847, in Germany. He founded and incorporated the Omaha Smelting and Refining company of Omaha, Neb.; also established similar works at Chicago, Ill., and at Denver, Colo. For some past years he has been an extensive mine operator.
Balch, Alfred
jurist. He was an early emigrant to the territory of Florida, and in 1840 was appointed one of the United States judges for that territory.
Balch, George Beall
naval officer, was born Jan. 3, 1821, in Tennessee.
He served in the Mexican war, and in 1850 was commissioned lieutenant. In 1861 he enlisted in the United States navy to serve in the civil war, and attained the rank of rear admiral. From 1879-'81 he was superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis, Md.
Balch, William Stevens
clergyman, author. He was born in 1806 in Vermont. He was a universalist clergyman, long resident at Elgin, Ill.; and author of Lectures on Language; Grammar of the English Language; Ireland as I Saw It; and A Peculiar People. He died in 1887.
Baldridge, William M
lawyer, legislator, was born March 13, 1863, in Saline County, Ark. He graduated from the Little Rock university, and from the law department of the Vanderbilt university. He has attained success as an eminent lawyer of his native state at Benton, and served as a representative in the Arkansas state legislature in 1893 and again in 1897.
Baldwin, Abel Seymour
physician, state legislator, was born March 19, 1811, in Fulton, N. Y. He was the first president of the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf railroad; in 1852 was elected to the Florida legislature; in 1859 was a state senator, and in 1863 was made medical director of Florida and Georgia.
Baldwin, Abraham
lawyer, statesman, was born Nov. 6, 1754, in Guilford, Conn. He was a graduate of Yale college in 1772, and from 1775 to 1779 was a tutor in that institution. Having studied law, settled in Savannah, Ga.; soon after his arrival there was chosen a member of the legislature; originated the plan of the university of Georgia, drew up the charter, persuaded the asa sembly to adopt it, and was for some time its president; was a member of the continental congress from 1785 to 1788, and member of the convention which framed the constitution of the United States, which he duly signed. From 1789 to 1799 he was a representative in congress from Georgia, and from 1799 to 1807 was a member of the United States senate. He died March 4, 1807, in Washington, D. C.
Baldwin, Albert
merchant, manufacturer, financier, was born in 1834 in Watertown, Mass. He is now president of the hardware corporation of A. Baldwin and Co. of New Orleans, La., and is a prominent factor in the business world.
Baldwin, Alexander W
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1835 in Alabama. He received a legal education and settled in Virginia City, Nev.; in his thirtieth year was appointed United States judge for Nevada. His father, Joseph G. Baldwin, was the author of a popular book entitled The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, and was judge of the supreme court of California. He was killed by a railroad accident Nov. 15, 1869, at Alameda, Cal.
Baldwin, Ashbel
clergyman, was born March 7, 1757, in Litchfield, Conn.
He served as a quartermaster in the revolutionary war, and was ordained by Bishop Seabury in 1785-the first episcopal ordination in this country. He had preached about 10,000 times, baptized 3,010, married 600 couples, and assisted at the burial of about 3,000 individuals. He died Feb. & 1846, in Rochester, N. Y.
Baldwin, Augustus C
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1817, in Salina, N. Y. In 1837 he emigrated to Michigan and settled in Oakland county; taught school, and at the same time studied law, and came to the bar in 1842. In 1844 and 1846 was elected to the legislature of Michigan; in 1853 and 1854 was prosecuting attorney for his adopted county, and was a delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore conventions of 1860. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-eighth congress.
Baldwin, Charles H
naval officer, was born Sept. 3, 1822, in New York city. He entered the navy in 1839. In the war with Mexico he served on the frigate Congress, and in 1861 commanded the steamer Clifton. January, 1883, he was raised to the rank of rear admiral, and assigned to the command of the Mediterranean squadron, and in 1884 was placed on the retired list. He died Nov. 17, 1888, in New York city.
Baldwin, Daniel Pratt
lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 22, 1837, in Madison county, N. Y. He graduated from Cagmina seminary in 1852, the Colgate university in 1856, and from the Columbia Law school in 1860. He was judge of the circuit court in 1870, and attorneygeneral of Indiana in 1880. He is a platform speaker and a successful man of affairs.
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.
Baldwin, Edwin Thomas
composer, was born July 19, 1832, in New Ipswich, N. H. He is a composer of band music and sacred quartettes, and president of the New Hampshire State association.
Baldwin, Frederick W
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 29, 1848, in Lowell, Vt. He is one of the leading lawyers of Vermont at Barton, and the author of Biography of the Bar of Orleans County, Vt. He has been presidential elector, and is prominent in the public enterprises of Barton, Vt., notably that of the Barton Manufacturing company and the Barton Hotel company.
Baldwin, George Colfax
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 21, 1817, in Pompton, N. J. He graduated from Madison university of Hamilton, N. Y., and has been for many years pastor of the First baptist church in Troy, N. Y. He is author of Representative Women of the Bible; Representative Men of the New Testament; and The Model Prayer; a volume of lectures and other works.
Baldwin, George Van Nest
lawyer, was born Jan. 23, 1838, in New York city. He is one of the ablest lawyers connected with the bar of New York, and the latter years of his life have been occupied more in the line of consultations than in court work.