Mr. Baldwin was born in East Fishkill, Dutchess County. N. Y., June 8, 1839, being the son of Elisha S. Baldwin and Aletta C. Stockholm, a grandson of Daniel Baldwin, of Lake Mahopac, Putnam County, N. Y., and of Aaron Stockholm, of Fishkill, from whom he was named, and a great-grandson of Elisha Baldwin, a pioneer of the Hudson River Valley. His father was born at Lake Mahopac, and during his active life followed successfully the dual occupation of farmer and live stock dealer. Mr. Baldwin attended the East Fishkill public schools until he was twelve years old, when he entered Pingree Academy at Fishkill, where he remained five years. Afterward he spent five years at what is now Drew Seminary in Carmel, Putnam County, graduating in 1860. His studies in these institutions were in every way worthy of the broad and receptive intellectual qualities which he manifested as a boy, and which have served him well ill business and public relations.

Having received a thorough classical training, he returned home, and in September, 1863, went to Chicago to accept a position with the American Express Company, which he held until July, 1870. At that date lie moved to Weehawken, N. J., and engaged in the live stock storage business as general live stock agent for the Erie Railroad, and continued in that ca-pacity until 1898, when he organized and incorporated the Weehawken Stock Yard Company, of which he is President and Treasurer and a Director.

Mr. Baldwin has been an active Republican ever since he cast his first vote and almost ever since the organization of the party, and for about a quarter of a century, with the exception of one or two years. has been a leading member of the Hudson County Republican Committee; and he is now Chairman of its Organization Committee, which has been asked to devise ways and means by which the party can be re-organized in the county. He was a member of the Mid-on County Board of Chosen Free- holders in 1881, 1S8-2, and 188:1, from the Tenth Assembly District, and for seven years served as a member and Chairman of the Board of Tax Commissioners of Hoboken, where he settled in April, 1886, and where he still resides. He is now one of the commissioners appointed by Governor Voorhees to inquire into the expediency of consolidating the several municipalities of Hudson County into one great city. This commission was formally organized June 14, 1899. Mr. Baldwin is also one of the commissioners in Hoboken to adjust the taxes in arrears under the Martin act. He has been a delegate to almost every State, district, county, and local Republican convention for upward of twenty-five years, was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention of 18811, and in 1896 was his party's candidate for Sheriff of Hudson County, and, though defeated by about 1,100 votes, carried Hoboken by over 500 and not only reduced the usual Democratic majority to an insignificant figure but changed entirely the com- plexion of the Democratic vote and raised the standard of the Republicans.

His activity and prominence in the ranks of the Republican party and his long and honorable connection with the live stock markets of New Jersey and New York have won for Mr. Baldwin an extensive acquaintance, among whom he is universally respected and esteemed. He is one of the most popular men of Hudson County. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Hoboken, and has always supported with a liberal hand every movement designed to promote the general welfare.