CLASS OF 1862

William Henry Baldwin died in Yonkers, N. Y., March 7, from complications following a cold which he had taken two weeks before.

Mr. Baldwin was a son of David and Amanda M. (Hobbs) Baldwin, and was born in Nashua, N. H., March 10, 1842. He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.) The late Horace C. Baldwin '68 was a brother.

Immediately after graduation he enlisted in the First New York Volunteer Engineers, and was commissioned as lieutenant. He served at Hilton Head and at the siege and capture of Morris Island, and in the Army of the James in front of Richmond and Petersburg. At the close of the war he was mustered out as captain of his company.

After his army service he established himself in Yonkers as an engineer, and was in charge of the designing and construction of sewerage works in Memphis, Tenn., Norfolk, Va., Buffalo, N. Y., and other cities.

In 1881 and 1882 he was engaged in the collection of statistics for the tenth census of the United States, reporting upon the sewerage and sanitary works of New York. Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Louisville.

In 1887 he was made superintendent and engineer of the water department of Yonkers. When these two offices were separated lie was appointed engineer of the water board, and in 1908 deputy city engineer, which last position he held at the time of his death.

Mr. Baldwin was an active member of Warburton Avenue Baptist church of Yonkers, and had been a deacon of that church since 1893.

October 25, 1871, he was married to Helen Adele Reed of Nashua, N. H., who died about six years ago. They had no children.