Melvin R. Baldwin

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Melvin R. Baldwin was a Captain of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry / Company E.

Antebellum

War Career

Postwar Career

  • Engaged in operative railroad work in Kansas after the war
  • 1875 - Moved to Minnesota
  • 1885 - Moved to Duluth, Minnesota
  • 1886 - President of Duluth Chamber of Commerce
  • Democrat
    • Twice declined Congressional nomination
    • August 1892 - Nominated by acclamation
    • Elected to the 53rd Congress



Melvin R. Baldwin Second Wisconsin Volunteers

Baldwin, Melvin R., of Duluth, Minn., was born in Windsor county, April 12, 1838; removed to Wisconsin 1847; entered Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., 1855, remaining through the sophomore year; studied law, and then adopted civil engineering as a profession; was engaged on Chicago & Northwestern R. R. till April 19, 1861; enlisted as a private in Company E., 2d Wis. Infantry, brigaded with the Iron Brigade; was slightly wounded at the first, and severely wounded at the second battle of Bull Run; promoted to captain of his company; was captured at Gettysburg and confined in Libby, Macon, Georgia, Charleston, and Columbia, South Carolina; made two escapes, but was recaptured, and was finally exchanged after seventeen months' imprisonment.

Engaged in operative railroad work in Kansas after the war; was general superintendent four years; removed to Minnesota in 1875, and has resided in Duluth since 1885; president of Duluth Chamber of Commerce since 1886; always a Democrat; twice declined Congressional nomination; nominated by acclamation in August, 1892, and was elected to the 53d Congress.


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Notes

  1. According to NPS

Sources

History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont, (Transcript Publishing Company, Brattleboro, VT, 1894), Part III, pp. 10.

  • Vermont Civil War Database
  • Independent Research by:
    • Beverly Gillihan
    • Tom Ledoux
    • Jack Lundquist
    • The Northeast Washington Genealogical Society