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John Denison Baldwin (1809 – 1883) was an American politician, Congregationalist minister, newspaper editor, and popular anthropological writer. In 1875 Baldwin published his book "Pre-historic Nations" posited the origins of human civilization as arising among a Northeast African people, the Cushites, in pre-historic times. Contents I. INTRODUCTORY GENERALITIES. II. PRELIMINARY SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING THE CURRENT CHRONOLOGIES, THE RELATION OF HELLAS TO CIVILIZATION, AND THE MEANING OF PRE-HISTORIC TIMES. III. PRE-HISTORIC GREATNESS OF ARABIA. IV. THE PHOENICIANS. V. ARABIAN ORIGIN OF CHALDEA. VI. INDIA, SANSKRIT AND ANTE-SANSKRIT. VII. EGYPT PREVIOUS TO MENES. VIII. AFRICA AND THE ARABIAN CUSHITES. IX. WESTERN EUROPE IN PRE-HISTORIC TIMES.
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He was born on September 28, 1809, in North Stonington, Connecticut, the eldest son of Daniel and Hannah (Stanton) Baldwin. Daniel Baldwin was a large landowner, who, suffering reverses, removed, when John was seven, to Chenango County, New York, at that time a wilderness. Here John toiled on the farm until, after another seven years, the family returned to North Stonington.
At North Stonington he attended the village school. At seventeen he was studying at Yale, while supporting himself by public-school teaching. Unable to complete his college course, he began the study of law, then entered Yale Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1834.
Ordained in the same year, he became pastor of the Congregational Church at West Woodstock, Connecticut, until 1837. Later he held pastorates at North Branford and North Killingly. As a preacher he is said to have shown sagacity and public spirit. Eager for further education, he studied French, German, and especially archeology. While at North Branford he published The Story of Raymond Hill and Other Poems (1847), which exhibit melancholy beauty and a moral purpose. From North Killingly he was elected by the Free-Soil party, which he helped to organize in Connecticut, to the legislature, where he sponsored the law establishing the state's first normal school (1850). Reaching the conviction that his services would be more usefully employed in journalism, he abandoned the ministry in 1849 to become owner and editor of the Free-Soil Charter Oak at Hartford.
Three years later he removed to Boston, becoming editor of the daily and weekly Commonwealth. Sumner, Henry Wilson, and Theodore Parker were frequent visitors to his office and became life-long friends. In 1859 he embraced the opportunity to purchase, with his sons, the Worcester Spy, which he made one of the leading newspapers of the state. Identifying himself now with the Republican party, he was influential, as a delegate to the convention of 1860, in securing the nomination of Hannibal Hamlin for vice-president. As a party counsellor, Baldwin was always highly valued for his knowledge of men and his political sagacity regarding the effects of measures. He was elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress (1862), and was twice reelected, becoming a member of committees on expenditures, public buildings, and library.
He made notable speeches on state sovereignty and treason, on reconstruction, and in defense of the Negro. His efforts - unfortunately premature - for international copyright, won gratitude from authors. Of Baldwin's two works Prehistoric Nations (1869) and Ancient America (1872), the first sets forth a now wholly discredited theory of the derivation of Western civilization from the Cushites of Arabia, while the second, a popular presentation of American aboriginal peoples, is rated as among the best books of its class then written. Baldwin later published several volumes on his own ancestry, besides contributing to the Baldwin Genealogy. His most influential work, however, was through the Spy. Here his industry, business capacity, and literary ability had full play and gave the paper wide influence through the state and beyond. Republicans knew it as the "Worcester County Bible, " Democrats dubbed it "The Lying Spy. " In later years he largely withdrew from active editorial work on the Spy, enjoying in retirement his family and books.
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He was a Congregationalist minister.
Baldwin was active in the Free Soil and anti-slavery movements.
In 1867 Baldwin was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
In 1865 he was elected a corporate member of the American Oriental Society.
Baldwin's retentive memory afforded wide range of facts, and his direct, forcible, sincere words were always animated by high ideals. Though not a rapid writer, he was a diligent one, making frequent archeological and kindred contributions to magazines.
He was married in 1832 to Lemira Hathaway of Dighton, Massachussets, by whom he had four children, two daughters who died in early life and two sons, John Stanton and Charles Clinton, who survived him and carried on the Spy.
