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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Baldwin, James, educator, author, was born Dec. 15, 1841, in Hamilton county, Ind. In 1869-71 he was superintendent of city graded schools in Huntington and other cities Indiana. In in 1890-93 he was editor of Harper's Magazine. In 1903-04 he was editor of school books for the American book company. He is the author of The Story of Siegfried; The Story of Roland; The Book Lover A Story of the Golden Age; Harper's volumes; Six Centuries of -1

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Readers, in five English Poetry; The Book of Elegies; The Famous Allegories; Choice English Lyrics; Family Stories and Fables; Fifty Famous Stories Retold; Old Greek Stories; Old Stories from the East; Guide to Systematic Readings in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; Four Great Americans; The Horse Fair; Baldwin's Readers; Discoveries of the Old Northwest; The Conquest of the Old Northwest; An American Book of Golden Deeds; and other works. Baldwin, James Fairchild, surgeon, author, was born Feb. 12, 1850, in Orangeville, N.Y. Since 1900 he has been surgeon and chief of staff at the Grant hospital of Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of Operative Gynecology; and other medical Monographs. Baldwin, James Fowle, civil engineer, was born April 29, 1782, in Woburn, Mass. He was appointed in 1837 one of the commissioners to examine and report upon the means of supplying Boston with pure water; and recommended Long Pond. His plan was adopted in 1846, and the work was completed in 1848. He was at one time state senator from Suifolk county, and also for some years water commissioner. He died May 20, 1862, in Boston, Mass. Baldwin, James Mark, educator, author, was born Jan. 12, 1861, in Columbia, S.C. Since 1843 he has been professor in Princeton university. Then in 1897 he was elected president of the American psychological association; and in the same year was awarded a gold medal by the of Royal academy Denmark. He Is the author of Handbook

of Psychology; Elements of Psychology

Mental

Development

Child and the Race; Social and Ethical Interpretations; Dictionary of Philosophy, in three volumes; Story of the Mind; and other works. in the

Baldwin, Jeduthan, soldier, was born Jan. Woburn, Mass. He commanded

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a company during the French and Indian war; and served in the expedition against Crown Point during the autumn of 1775. He served under General St. Clair at Ticonderoga in 1777; and with his regiment was at West Point in 1780. He was a member of the Massachusetts provincial congress in 1774-75. He resigned from the army in 1782. He died June 4, 1788, in Brookfield, Mass. Baldwin, John, congressman, was born in Windham, Conn. In 1825-29 he was a representative from Connecticut to the nineteenth and twentieth congresses. He died in Connecticut.

Baldwin, John Denison, journalist, clergyman, .congressman, author, poet, was born Sept. 28, 1809, in North Stonington, Conn.

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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. In 1863-69 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the thirtyeighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. He was the author of Pre-Historic Nations;

Ancient America; and Raymond Hill and Other Poems. He died July 8, 1883, in Worcester, Mass. Baldwin, Joseph, educator, college president, author, was born Oct. 31, 1827, in New Castle, Pa. For half a century he was engaged in educational work. He was president of the normal schools in Indiana for ten years; president of the Noi-th Missouri state normal school of Kirksville in 1871-81;

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dent of the Texas state normal school of Huntsville in 1881-91. He was the author of The Art of School Management; Elementary Psychology; Psychology Applied to the Art of Teaching; and School Management and School Methods. He died Jan. 13, 1899, in Austin, Texas. Baldwin, Joseph Elias, soldier, educator, lawyer, statesman, was born Aug. 22, 1826, in New York City and is the son of the late Rev. Elihu W. Baldwin. He was educated

at Wabash college of Indiana, of which his father was president.

During the civil war he served as a private soldier in the Missouri infantry; and participated in various battles and skirmishes. For many years he was engaged in educational work. In 186465 he served with distinction as a member of the Missouri state senate; and still practices his profession of law in Topeka, Kan., where he has held numerous positions of trust and honor.

Baldwin, Joseph G., lawyer, jurist, author, in 1811 in Sumter, Ala. In 1857-63 he vr_a.B a judge of the supreme court of California; and he was chief justice in 1863-64. He was the author of Plush Times in Alaba-

was born