Corwin B. Baldwin Biography This biography appears on pages 520-521 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm CORWIN B. BALDWIN. One of the successful merchants of Rapid City is Corwin B. Baldwin, who was born in Olivet, South Dakota, on the 28th of September. 1877, a son of William B. and Louise (Straw) Baldwin, the former a native of Mentor, Ohio, and the latter of Chadron, that state. The father arrived in South Dakota in the days of its pioneer development, having traveled by rail and steamboat to Yankton and thence by ox team to Olivet. He settled upon a homestead near the latter place in 1872 and farmed for many years. He and his wife are still living upon the land which he entered from the government. Corwin B. Baldwin is the third in order of birth in a family of seven children and in the acquirement of his early education attended the district schools near his father's farm. Desiring to prepare himself for his life work, he entered the school of pharmacy of the South Dakota State Agricultural College at Brookings and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1900. For a year he was employed at Parkston, and then removed to Yankton, where he spent two years. In 1903 he removed to Rapid City and for the succeeding five years was in the employ of others. However, by 1908 he had acquired sufficient capital to start in business on his own account and be purchased the drug store which he still owns. In the years that have since intervened he has managed his business so ably that it has grown steadily and rapidly and is now the largest exclusive retail drug establishment in western South Dakota. The greatest care is taken in the filling of prescriptions, his drugs are of full strength and of absolute purity and he carries an excellent line or druggists, sundries. He is also interested in the Western South Dakota Commission Company, of which he is the president, and in a number of other concerns. On New Year's Day, 1903. Mr. Baldwin was united in marriage with Miss Helen M. Morrison, a daughter of Edward and Jessie (Miner) Morrison, of De Smet, South Dakota. Two children Corwin E. and Donald, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin. He is independent politically. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained high rank in that order, belonging to the chapter, commandery and Shrine. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Elks, being a charter member of the Rapid City Lodge of the latter organization. During his college days he took part ill track athletics and continues to find much pleasure in outdoor sports, his chief recreations being fishing and hunting. His success is gratifying and well deserved and he is held in high esteem by his fellow citizens, who have found him alert, energetic, capable and thoroughly dependable.