434 GEORGE RUMFORD BALDWIN. 



From April, 1857, to July, 1858, he spent with his family in Eu- 

 rope, principally in Paris and London, with many excursions. He 

 was a most intelligent and inquisitive traveller. With accomplished 

 skill in draughting and etching, his pencil was ever busy in sketching 

 all the objects of special interest to him. His descriptions of such 

 objects in his journals are illustrated by a mass of drawings, more or 

 less perfected, preserved in his numerous collections. On October 

 25, 1848, he witnessed the introduction of the Cochituate water into 

 Boston. His papers show that his services in this undertaking had 

 been frequently engaged by his brother James, already mentioned as 

 one of the Water Commissioners. He mentions that on this occasion 

 he had in charge Sarah Countess Rumford. She had been permitted 

 by the Elector of Bavaria to take this title after the death of her father 

 in France. She spent her closing years in her fine family home in 

 Concord, N. H., the children of her father's friend having the over- 

 sight of her interests. 



Mr. Baldwin was Assistant Consulting Engineer of the Mystic 

 Water Works in Charlestown. He notes that his photograph as 

 such an official was deposited in the copper box under the engine- 

 house in 1860. In February, 1861, he was appointed by the Legis- 

 lature as Engineer for the proposed Ship Canal at Cape Cod. His 

 report is among the State archives. Under date of Boston, June 6, 

 1864, he made his report on the survey for the Boston, Hartford, 

 and Erie Railroad. 



In 1867 he was commissioned by Governor Bullock as State 

 Engineer of Improvements in Boston Harbor. 



In this brief sketch, as already intimated, only the more important 

 of the great undertakings of a professional character which occupied 

 Mr. Baldwin's long life have been mentioned. His journals show 

 how fully every interval between these public works, and every mo- 

 ment of leisure, was employed in a vast variety of occasions in which 

 he was called upon as an expert. But he always found time to indulge 

 himself as an amateur in many congenial pursuits. He was skilled 

 in all farming, horticultural, and agricultural labors. He had his 

 work-bench, with the best of tools and scientific instruments. His 

 pen was ever busy in his own affairs, or for the service of friends. 



It may be that his voluminous and carefully arranged and filed 

 papers may yet need to be consulted for the facts and information 

 contained in them. 



Mr. Baldwin had but one child, a daughter, now married and 

 residing mainly in Quebec. 



