"DEATH OF A. W. BALDWIN.
Among the killed by the railway collision yesterday morning in Alameda county, we learn, with deep regret, was Judge Alexander W. Baldwin, of the State of Nevada. Judge Baldwin was still in the early Summer of life, having, we believe, not yet completed his thirty-first year, or if so, being very little over that age. His active public career began at Downieville, Sierra county, in 1859. That year, being then between nineteen and twenty years of age, be applied (April, 1859,) for admission to practice as an attorney in the Supreme Court, and was admitted. He was afterward District Attorney of Sierra county, and in the early Spring of 1861, shortly after the attack on Fort Sumter, young Baldwin took a bold, firm stand in favor of the Union cause, and delivered a speech creditable alike to his head and heart. In the Winter of 1861-62 he removed to Virginia City, in the then Territory of Nevada, where he formed a law partnership with William M. Stewart, now United States Senator from Nevada. The practice of the firm became lucrative and both the partners were soon among the most popular men in the Territory. Nevada being admitted into the Union as a State, October 31, 1864, Stewart became one of the first United States Senators, and shortly afterward Baldwin received the appointment to the United States District Judgeship, which position he has ever since filled with honor to himself and the country. He had already won the reputation of an incorruptible Judge and a clear-headed lawyer. In his personal intercourse with men he was gentle and amiable in his manners, and like his distinguished father, Judge Joseph G. Baldwin, once of the Supreme Bench of California, displayed a taste for polite literature. Judge Baldwin leaves a widow and one son, aged about five years, with whose deep grief at his untimely taking off thousands of loving and admiring friends will unite in full sympathy."
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 38, Number 5814, Monday, November 15, 1869, page 2.
Among the killed by the railway collision yesterday morning in Alameda county, we learn, with deep regret, was Judge Alexander W. Baldwin, of the State of Nevada. Judge Baldwin was still in the early Summer of life, having, we believe, not yet completed his thirty-first year, or if so, being very little over that age. His active public career began at Downieville, Sierra county, in 1859. That year, being then between nineteen and twenty years of age, be applied (April, 1859,) for admission to practice as an attorney in the Supreme Court, and was admitted. He was afterward District Attorney of Sierra county, and in the early Spring of 1861, shortly after the attack on Fort Sumter, young Baldwin took a bold, firm stand in favor of the Union cause, and delivered a speech creditable alike to his head and heart. In the Winter of 1861-62 he removed to Virginia City, in the then Territory of Nevada, where he formed a law partnership with William M. Stewart, now United States Senator from Nevada. The practice of the firm became lucrative and both the partners were soon among the most popular men in the Territory. Nevada being admitted into the Union as a State, October 31, 1864, Stewart became one of the first United States Senators, and shortly afterward Baldwin received the appointment to the United States District Judgeship, which position he has ever since filled with honor to himself and the country. He had already won the reputation of an incorruptible Judge and a clear-headed lawyer. In his personal intercourse with men he was gentle and amiable in his manners, and like his distinguished father, Judge Joseph G. Baldwin, once of the Supreme Bench of California, displayed a taste for polite literature. Judge Baldwin leaves a widow and one son, aged about five years, with whose deep grief at his untimely taking off thousands of loving and admiring friends will unite in full sympathy."
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 38, Number 5814, Monday, November 15, 1869, page 2.
"DEATH OF A. W. BALDWIN.
Among the killed by the railway collision yesterday morning in Alameda county, we learn, with deep regret, was Judge Alexander W. Baldwin, of the State of Nevada. Judge Baldwin was still in the early Summer of life, having, we believe, not yet completed his thirty-first year, or if so, being very little over that age. His active public career began at Downieville, Sierra county, in 1859. That year, being then between nineteen and twenty years of age, be applied (April, 1859,) for admission to practice as an attorney in the Supreme Court, and was admitted. He was afterward District Attorney of Sierra county, and in the early Spring of 1861, shortly after the attack on Fort Sumter, young Baldwin took a bold, firm stand in favor of the Union cause, and delivered a speech creditable alike to his head and heart. In the Winter of 1861-62 he removed to Virginia City, in the then Territory of Nevada, where he formed a law partnership with William M. Stewart, now United States Senator from Nevada. The practice of the firm became lucrative and both the partners were soon among the most popular men in the Territory. Nevada being admitted into the Union as a State, October 31, 1864, Stewart became one of the first United States Senators, and shortly afterward Baldwin received the appointment to the United States District Judgeship, which position he has ever since filled with honor to himself and the country. He had already won the reputation of an incorruptible Judge and a clear-headed lawyer. In his personal intercourse with men he was gentle and amiable in his manners, and like his distinguished father, Judge Joseph G. Baldwin, once of the Supreme Bench of California, displayed a taste for polite literature. Judge Baldwin leaves a widow and one son, aged about five years, with whose deep grief at his untimely taking off thousands of loving and admiring friends will unite in full sympathy."
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 38, Number 5814, Monday, November 15, 1869, page 2.
Among the killed by the railway collision yesterday morning in Alameda county, we learn, with deep regret, was Judge Alexander W. Baldwin, of the State of Nevada. Judge Baldwin was still in the early Summer of life, having, we believe, not yet completed his thirty-first year, or if so, being very little over that age. His active public career began at Downieville, Sierra county, in 1859. That year, being then between nineteen and twenty years of age, be applied (April, 1859,) for admission to practice as an attorney in the Supreme Court, and was admitted. He was afterward District Attorney of Sierra county, and in the early Spring of 1861, shortly after the attack on Fort Sumter, young Baldwin took a bold, firm stand in favor of the Union cause, and delivered a speech creditable alike to his head and heart. In the Winter of 1861-62 he removed to Virginia City, in the then Territory of Nevada, where he formed a law partnership with William M. Stewart, now United States Senator from Nevada. The practice of the firm became lucrative and both the partners were soon among the most popular men in the Territory. Nevada being admitted into the Union as a State, October 31, 1864, Stewart became one of the first United States Senators, and shortly afterward Baldwin received the appointment to the United States District Judgeship, which position he has ever since filled with honor to himself and the country. He had already won the reputation of an incorruptible Judge and a clear-headed lawyer. In his personal intercourse with men he was gentle and amiable in his manners, and like his distinguished father, Judge Joseph G. Baldwin, once of the Supreme Bench of California, displayed a taste for polite literature. Judge Baldwin leaves a widow and one son, aged about five years, with whose deep grief at his untimely taking off thousands of loving and admiring friends will unite in full sympathy."
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 38, Number 5814, Monday, November 15, 1869, page 2.
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