Background
Baldwin, Charles Jacobs was born on August 10, 1841 in Charleston, New York, United States. Son of George Colfax and May Cynthia (Jacobs) Baldwin.
Baldwin, Charles Jacobs was born on August 10, 1841 in Charleston, New York, United States. Son of George Colfax and May Cynthia (Jacobs) Baldwin.
Bachelor of Arts, Madison (now Colgate) University, Hamilton, New York, 1864. Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1868. (Doctor of Divinity, Denison University, 1900).
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1868. Pastor Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1868-1874, 1st Church, Rochester, New York, 1874-1886, Granville, O., since 1886.
Served as First lieutenant and adjunct, 157th New York Volumes, 1863-1865, campaigns of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and siege of Charleston.
Married Adelaide Fosdick, of Groton, Massachusetts, August 3, 1870.