John Baldwin Raymond Biography

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RAYMOND, John Baldwin, a Delegate from the Territory of Dakota; born in 
Lockport, Niagara County, N. Y., December 5, 1844; moved with his 
parents to Tazewell County, Ill., in 1853; attended the public schools 
and the Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Business College in 1865 and 1866; during 
the Civil War enlisted as a private in the Thirty-first Regiment, 
Illinois Infantry, in 1861; promoted to captain of Company E of that 
regiment after the siege of Vicksburg in 1863; served throughout the 
war and settled in Mississippi; published the Mississippi Pilot at 
Jackson, Miss., during the reconstruction of that State and until 1877; 
assistant State treasurer 1873-1875 appointed United States marshal of 
Dakota Territory in 1877, with headquarters at Yankton, later at. 
Fargo, and served until 1882; declined a reappointment; elected as a 
Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); 
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884; engaged in wheat 
raising; died in Fargo, Dak. (now North Dakota), January 3, 1886; 
interment in the public vault in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D. C.