CHAPTER LII 

 WILLIAM HENRY BALDWIN 



TREASURER OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQI2 TO 



WILLIAM HENRY BALDWIN, who served our National 

 Tuberculosis Association so faithfully as treasurer from 

 1912 to 1919, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, July 16, 

 1851. He was the son of Timothy D. and Lucre tia K. Manning 

 Baldwin. He obtained his degree of A.B. from the Western 

 Reserve University in 1871. He became cashier of the First 

 National Bank of Youngstown in 1877, its vice-president in 1889; 

 manager of the Arms-Bell Company in 1887, secretary of the 

 Youngstown Iron and Steel Company in 1890, and of the Union 

 Iron and Steel Company in 1892; secretary and treasurer of the 

 Ohio Steel Company in 1894, and of the National Steel Company 

 in 1899. 



In 1901 Mr. Baldwin retired and devoted himself to social 

 work. We owe it to Dr. Charles O. Probst, of Columbus, Ohio, 

 one of the pioneers and an enthusiastic worker for the tuber- 

 culosis cause in this country and particularly in the state of Ohio, 

 that Mr. Baldwin, a layman, entered with heart and soul into the 

 tuberculosis movement and brought with him a keen sense of the 

 responsibility which all good citizens have in the social and hy- 

 gienic welfare of the nation. 



Mr. Baldwin's business training fitted him eminently for the 

 many positions of trust which he has occupied since he settled in 

 Washington, D. C. Aside from being treasurer of the National 

 Tuberculosis Association he has served as a director and member 

 of its executive committee for many years. He was a member 

 of the President's Home Commission; official delegate of the 

 National Tuberculosis Association to the International Conference 

 on Tuberculosis in Brussels in 1910, and an official delegate of 

 the United States to the International Congress on Tuberculosis 



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