The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-08-11
SUDDEN ENDING
Pioneer Newspaper Man Dies
Suddenly at Tacoma Park
Heart Failure
Funeral Services Held Tuesday
From Masonic Temple
Biographical Sketch

The news of the death of Charles
e. Baldwin was received in the city
Sunday afternoon and the entire com
munity was shocked by the sad It'd
ings. Mr.. Baldwin left the city Sat.
urday morning, feeling as well as
usual, and went to Tacoma Park
where he enjoyed spending as much
time as possible. He had not been
feeling any too we'll for some time
though his condition was not thought
to be serious as it had been previous
ly. Saturday evening he drove a cou-
pie of posts into the ground with a
heavy sledge hammer and the unusual
exertion seemed to leave him in
rather bad shape. He did not feel
well Sunday morning and said he had
slept hardly at all. Along about nine
O'Clock he went out fer a walk but
had not gone very far until some one
saw him fall to the ground and cry
out as if in pain. He was assisted to
his cottage where his relatives and
friends did all they could to make
him easy. He complained of no par
ticular pain but said that his legs felt
numb. DR.. McNutt was sent for but
he did not arrive until after Mr.. Bald
win was dead.
At about l O'Clock he turned over
on one side and lost consciousness and
at about 2 o'clock he was dead.
Death vas probably caused by a
heart trouble, made acute by the ex-
ertion Of the previous evening, from
which he had been a sufferer for some
years.
At the time of his death Mr.. Bald
win was auditor of the city of Aber-
deem and editor of the South Dakota
Workman, official organ of the grand
lodge Of the Workmen in this state.
He was city editor of the News from
1898 until about a year ago when he
received his appointment from Mayor
Aldrich. He is survived by his wife,
two daughters, Mrs. w. A. Kerr and
Miss Ellen, and one son, George, a
lad of about ten years. He was a 80
degree Mason and a member of the A.
o. u. w.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Charles E. Baldwin was born in Osh-
kosh, Wis, on December 10, 1856.
When a young man he went to Sand
Wich, ILL.,, where he learned the trade
of a printer and where he was married
to Miss Clara P. Devoll. Shortly
after his marriage he decided to come
to what was then Dakota territory
and joined a party in Chicago which
was enroute for the then great and
undeveloped territory. He came out
from Chicago with VIM. Townsend,
He McGregor, James Frazier, Wal
ter Mcmillan, Nate and Len Love-
lace, r. S. Jenne, Jack Helmka, a Mr..
Sheppard and one other whose name
could not be learned. or this party
only Jack Helmka is now left in the
county, all the others having remov-
ed from it or died.
Mr.. Baldwin filed on a quarter sec
tion of land which Joined the town
site of Columbia and spent the first
two years of his residence in the
county improving it. A brother,
Major M. R. Baldwin, was one of the
owners of the TOWNSHIP of Col umbia
and in early times one of it's most
prominent citizens. In 1882 he be-
came a partner in the publication of
the Brown County Sentinel, the first
paper in the county, which had been
established a short time before by j..
D. Reeves, now publisher of the Gro
ton Independent. Mr.. Reeves moved
to GrOton after a time and Mr.. Bald
win continued the publication of the
paper at Columbia until 1893, when
he moved it to Aberdeen, He was at
q time an alderman in Columbia
and was postmaster there from 1880
until 1893. He sold the Sentinel to
G. w. Stafford in 1898 and that sum-
mer took the position of city editor
Of the News. He resigned in 1904 to
become city auditor. Mr.. Baldwin
was elected editor of the South Oak
ota Workman on May 10, 1899 and
held that position up to the time Of
his death. He had been a member OF
the Workman order since 1885 and
had for years acted as journal clerk at
all sessions of the state grand lodge.
FUNERAL SERVICES
The funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon from the Masonic
Temple. At 2 o'clock members of
the Masonic and Workmen lodges
marched to the residence Of the. de-
ceased and escorted the remains to
the Temple. Members OF the city
council and city officials were present
as were q large number Of friends.
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