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Charles H. Baldwin

Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy

Centurion, 1878–1888

Full Name Charles Henry Baldwin

Born 3 September 1822 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 17 November 1888 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Saint Marks Church-in-the-Bowery Churchyard, Manhattan, New York

Proposed by George W. Cullum and Charles P. Daly

Elected 2 March 1878 at age fifty-five

Century Memorial

Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew, Admiral Charles H. Baldwin, Joseph N. Balestier, William Dorsheimer, Joseph W. Drexel, Horace Fairbanks, George H. Forster, Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, John R. G. Hazard [sic: Hassard], Richard W. Hubbard, Thomas McElrath, Col. Walter McFarland, T. Bailey Myers, Henry E. Pierrepont, Frederick A. Potts, Prof. Robert R. Raymond, Bernard Roelker, Dr. Thomas T. Sabine, Mahlon D. Sands, Dr. Henry B. Sands, Gustav Schwab.

The Club has seldom been called upon to deplore the loss of so many distinguished and valuable members in one year.

Henry E. Howland
1889 Century Association Reports