Charles Potts Baldwin, 32° KCCH
(Jun 1, 1858 - Sep 23, 1907)

32° Consistory of Western MO, Kansas City
1889 - Knight Commander of the Court of Honour
Past treasurer, Valley of Kansas City

Interred: Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, MO

Occupation: Jackson County Sheriff, elected 1904 and 1906. Businessman engaged in livestock including cattle and hog sales, hotel operator.

Distinguished Brother Charles Baldwin was born in 1858 in Logan County, Ohio moving to Brookfield, Missouri at 17 years of age where he became actively engaged in the buying and shipping of cattle. He moved to Kansas City in 1880 and entered the livestock business in the stockyards, first in cattle then in the hog market in partnership with his father under the name Charles P. Baldwin & Company until about a year prior to his death. He operated the Virginia Hotel, at Eleventh & Walnut, for a time and ran for sheriff on the Republican ticket in 1892, was defeated but made a strong showing. He ran again and was elected in 1904 and 1906. Sheriff Baldwin had been ill for a long time following an abdominal injury sustained while handling cattle at the stockyards five years prior to his death.

Interred: Elmwood Cemetery