Tenth Generation

9545. George Johnson BALDWIN was born on 18 August 1856 in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia.¹⁷⁵⁶

He died on 4 March 1927 in Baltimore, Baltimore (city), Maryland.¹⁷⁵⁶

From:
A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY WILLIAM HARDEN
VOLUME I, ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1913

George J. Baldwin was born August 18, 1856, in Savannah, in the family home on Congress street. He received superior educational advantages, in the spring of 1877 completing a four years' special course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston. He was subsequently superintendent of iron and gold mines in Alabama and Georgia from July, 1877, until October, 1879, when he became a member of the firm of Baldwin & Company, of Savannah, Georgia, dealers in fertilizers, cotton and naval stores factors. Later he organized the Baldwin Fertilizer Company, of Savannah, becoming its president and general manager. In 1894 Mr. Baldwin retired from active business, but resumed again in 1898, becoming interested in electric railway and lighting plants, and is now president of the Savannah Electric Company, and of numerous other industrial and heavily capitalized corporations, including the following: The Gainesville Midland Railway, a steam railroad running out of Gainesville; the Chestatee Pyrites Company, a Georgia mining corporation; and the Electric Railway and Lighting companies of Savannah, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida, and Tampa, Key West, and Pensacola, Florida.

Mr. Baldwin is also a director in the Savannah Trust Company; the Columbus Electric Company of Columbus, Georgia; the National Bank of Savannah; and of the Augusta & Savannah Railroad Company. He is a member of the Savannah Cotton Exchange, and of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce.

In public, charitable and philanthropic movements Mr. Baldwin has long been active and influential. He is president of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten, which was founded in 1900 by him and his mother, in whose honor it was named, and which has since been maintained by him free of any expense to the public. Mr. Baldwin is likewise president of the Associated Charities of Savannah; a trustee of the Georgia, infirmary for colored people, and of the Chatham Academy. He is curator and vice-president of the Georgia Historical Society; and was the first chairman of the board of managers of the Savannah public library, and for many years was a member of that board, and of the park and tree commissioners of Savannah.

Among the many clubs and social organizations of which Mr. Baldwin is a prominent member mention may be made of the following ones in Savannah: The Oglethorpe, Cotillion, Golf and Automobile clubs, and the Savannah Volunteer Guards and Georgia Hussars. He is likewise a member of the Young Men's Christian Associations of both Savannah and Boston, Massachusetts. Among the New York clubs to which Mr. Baldwin belongs are the Southern Society, the Recess, the Automobile Club of America, and the Reform Club. He likewise belongs to the Muscogee Club, of Columbus, Georgia; the Capital City Club, of Atlanta, Georgia; the Lake Placid Club, of Lake Placid, New York; and the Highland Lake and Flat Rock Country clubs, of Flat Rock, North Carolina. Mr. Baldwin is also a member of the National Geographic Society; the Sierra Club, of San Francisco; the American Academy of Political and Social Science; the American Forestry Association; the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, and of various other organizations.

George Johnson BALDWIN and Lucy Harvie HULL of Atlanta, Georgia were married on 27 June 1882.¹⁷⁵⁶

Lucy Harvie HULL of Atlanta, Georgia was born on 25 March 1857 in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia.¹⁷⁵⁶

She died on 18 February 1923.¹⁷⁵⁶

George Johnson BALDWIN and Lucy Harvie HULL of Atlanta, Georgia had the following children:

+11930	i.	George Hull BALDWIN.
11931	ii.	Daniel Hoard BALDWIN III was born on 28 November 1884 in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia.1756 He died on 12 April 1887 in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia.1756
+11932	iii.	Dorothea Clifford BALDWIN.