William Delavan Baldwin

William Delavan Baldwin (5 Satumba 1856 - 26 Satumba 1930) ɗan kasuwa ne ɗan Amurka.

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
An haifi William Delavan Baldwin a ranar 5 ga Satumba, 1856, ga Lovewell Hurd Baldwin da Sarah Jane Munson a Auburn, New York .  Ya fito ne daga zuriyar John Baldwin, ɗaya daga cikin fararen mazauna Dedham, Massachusetts . ed. Mohr, William F. (1914). Who's who in New York City and State. L.R. Hamersly Company. p. 35.Leonard, John William. (1910). History of the City of New York, 1609-1909. Journal of commerce and commercial bulletin. p. 665.

Baldwin yana da sha'awar makanikai kuma ba da daɗewa ba ya fara aiki da DM Osborne & Co. Ya yi fice a kasuwanci kuma an ɗaukaka shi a cikin kamfanin, daga ƙarshe aka tura shi Turai don faɗaɗa kasuwancin kamfanin a can yana da shekaru ashirin da ɗaya.   Ya zauna a wannan matsayin na tsawon shekaru biyar, amma daga ƙarshe ya yanke shawarar komawa Amurka. A shekara ta 1882, ya yi murabus daga kamfanin don neman sha'awarsa ta kera lif, kuma ya shiga Otis Brothers & Co, wanda ya riga ya zama Kamfanin Otis Elevator, a matsayin ma'ajin kuɗinsa. A lokacin, lif "wani abu ne mai ban mamaki," kuma shiga harkar ana ɗaukarsa a matsayin shawara "mai kyau".  An san Baldwin da ƙwarewarsa ta kasuwanci, ladabi, mutunci, da juriya. Ya jagoranci sake tsara kasuwancin,  kuma ya kasance "mai matuƙar muhimmanci" a cikin shugabanci da tsarin Kamfanin Otis Elevator a lokacin da yake can.  Daga ƙarshe ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaba kuma Darakta, sannan kuma Babban Manaja kuma Shugaban Hukumar Gudanarwa ta kamfanin, wanda a lokacin shi ne babban kamfanin kera lif a duniya.

An sanya wa Delavan Terrace, wanda yanzu yake wani ɓangare na Gundumar Tarihi ta Delavan Terrace, suna bayansa, kuma tsohon gidan da ya mallaka mai fadin eka 550 a New York yanzu yana cikin Donald J. Trump State Park .

Baldwin ya mutu a gidansa da ke Yorktown Heights, New York a ranar 26 ga Satumba, 1930.

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
A shekara ta 1881, ya auri Helen Runyon Sullivan, 'yar Nahum M. Sullivan, wani fitaccen ɗan kasuwa a New York, kuma yana da 'ya'ya akalla bakwai tare da ita.   

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