CHARLES BALDWIN
In October, 1855, Charles K. Baldwin was elected to fill this very responsible and onerous office [Cass County Clerk of the Court], and was re-elected in 1856, and held it until July 5, 1858, when he was summoned to a higher court, a court whose decree there is no appeal from, the court of Death; having been drowned in the Seven Mile creek, in the flood of that year, while attempting to swim it.
Transcribed from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 360.
