Bios: HON. SAMUEL R. BALDWIN, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      HON. SAMUEL R. BALDWIN,
  
  [p. 595] superintendent of the Pittsburg Stove and Range Company, of New
  Castle, has been a resident of this city since 1883, coming here when
  the plant was established at New Castle, and having been identified with
  the concern since 1872. He was born at Pittsburg, Pa., December 20,
  1841, and is a son of John M. and Margaret (Ritter) Baldwin.
  
  Mr. Baldwin was reared and until he was eleven years of age attended
  school in Pittsburg, after which he worked in a glass factory for two
  years and for two more years in a candy manufacturing plant. From there
  he entered the employ of Alexander Bradley & Company, of Pittsburg, to
  learn the molder's trade, and had completed his apprenticeship before he
  enlisted for service in the Civil War. He entered the army on August 1,
  1861, as a member of Company E, Sixty-third Regiment, Pennsylvania
  Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged December 31, 1862,
  having been somewhat seriously wounded at the battle of Bull Run. After
  the close of this honorable period of military service, he re-entered
  the Bradley works as a journeyman molder, but for over a year had to
  move about on crutches from the injury he had sustained. He continued
  with the above firm after he was able to resume active work, until early
  in the seventies, when he became manager for Mitchell & Company, of
  Pittsburg. Later nine different plants, by consolidation, formed the
  Pittsburg Stove and Range Company, Mitchell & Company being one that
  went into the new organization. In 1881, Robert A. Duncan and Samuel R.
  Baldwin bought the Mitchell & Company plant, and in 1882 they erected
  the New Castle works under the name of Duncan & Baldwin. About 1884 Mr.
  Baldwin purchased Mr. Duncan's interests and later sold the same to J.
  C. Graham, and the business was conducted under the firm style of
  Baldwin & Graham, and in 1899 they consolidated with the Pittsburg Stove
  and Range Company.
  
  From early manhood Mr. Baldwin has been active in politics and
  prominently identified with the Republican party. In 1879 he was elected
  to the State Legislature from the Fifth District of Allegheny County,
  and served for four years, during which time he made an honorable
  record. He has also served four years as a member of the New Castle City
  Council, representing the Second Ward.
  
  Mr. Baldwin was married to Sarah A. Lewis and they have had three
  children: Harry M., Charles L. and Frank H. Harry M. is vice-president
  of the Pittsburg Stove and Range Company, with headquarters at
  Pittsburg. Charles L. is secretary of the Pennsylvania Engineering
  Company at New Castle. Frank H., who died in his home at Pittsburg, when
  aged thirty-two years, was superintendent of Division A of the Pittsburg
  Stove and Range Company. Mr. Baldwin is a very prominent Mason, being
  mainly identified with the higher branches of the order at Pittsburg.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  
  Updated: 13 Nov 2001