Occurred Yesterday at His Home in Naugatuck—A Member of the Old Fifteenth C. V.—Graduate of the Yale Law School—Prominent in the Free Silver Movement.
Naugatuck, Jan. 15.—Henry C. Baldwin, well known throughout the state, died at 1:30 p. m. to-day at his home here of nervous prostration. He was a lawyer, but gained most prominence as an advocate of the labor party, as a greenbacker, and later as a free silverite. His health was broken by overwork in the recent campaign. He went away on a vacation a few weeks ago, hoping to recuperate, but he continued to fail and he returned home on Wednesday.
Mr. Baldwin was born in Naugatuck in 1842. He enlisted in the Fifteenth Connecticut Volunteers, and was in the service for three years. He was in New Haven for several months in the recruiting service during the war, and his recruiting office on Church street is well remembered by many New Haven friends of the deceased. He graduated from the Yale law school in 1872.
For a number of years he was a prominent and active member of the democratic party, but during the Greeley campaign and since had been known as a greenbacker, until he took the stump for Bryan. He had been nominated for various offices by the populist and labor parties in this state. He was a faithful soldier, an honest and sincere man and had won prominence largely by his own untiring energy and unaided.
Mr. Baldwin leaves a widow and three children. The funeral has not been arranged yet, but it will probably take place Sunday afternoon.
—New Haven Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, Connecticut), Saturday, January 16, 1897, p. 3
Occurred Yesterday at His Home in Naugatuck—A Member of the Old Fifteenth C. V.—Graduate of the Yale Law School—Prominent in the Free Silver Movement.
Naugatuck, Jan. 15.—Henry C. Baldwin, well known throughout the state, died at 1:30 p. m. to-day at his home here of nervous prostration. He was a lawyer, but gained most prominence as an advocate of the labor party, as a greenbacker, and later as a free silverite. His health was broken by overwork in the recent campaign. He went away on a vacation a few weeks ago, hoping to recuperate, but he continued to fail and he returned home on Wednesday.
Mr. Baldwin was born in Naugatuck in 1842. He enlisted in the Fifteenth Connecticut Volunteers, and was in the service for three years. He was in New Haven for several months in the recruiting service during the war, and his recruiting office on Church street is well remembered by many New Haven friends of the deceased. He graduated from the Yale law school in 1872.
For a number of years he was a prominent and active member of the democratic party, but during the Greeley campaign and since had been known as a greenbacker, until he took the stump for Bryan. He had been nominated for various offices by the populist and labor parties in this state. He was a faithful soldier, an honest and sincere man and had won prominence largely by his own untiring energy and unaided.
Mr. Baldwin leaves a widow and three children. The funeral has not been arranged yet, but it will probably take place Sunday afternoon.
—New Haven Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, Connecticut), Saturday, January 16, 1897, p. 3
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HENRY CHALMERS
SEPT. 15, 1842
JAN. 15, 1897
BALDWIN
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Jerusha Maria Baldwin Small
1829–1921
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Hervey Watson Baldwin
1834–1900
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Esther F. Baldwin Browne
1838–1926
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Louis Sherwood Baldwin
1838–1863
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Frances Adelaide "Fanny" Baldwin Bingham
1840–1899
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Matilda Augusta Baldwin
1846–1866
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Albert Warren Baldwin
1849–1868
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Charles Willard Baldwin
1851–1942
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Eleanore Florence Baldwin
1854–1928
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