C.C. Baldwin

Christopher Columbus Baldwin (May 18, 1830 – May 12, 1897) was the Naval Officer of the Port of New York from 1894 to 1897 who was prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age.

His father served with distinction in the War of 1812, under Commodore Lewis Warrington, and his grandfathers both served in the American Revolutionary War, commissioned officers in the 1st Maryland Regiment under General William Smallwood. In this role, he served as president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad for four years when he resigned due to management differences with the other major stockholders. Baldwin replaced Theodore B. Willis, who had been appointed by President Benjamin Harrison. He served in this role until his death in 1897. He owned a cottage in Newport, known as the "Baldwin villa" which was located at the corner of Bellevue Avenue and Narragansett. In 1896, he rented Mrs. A. M. King's Newport cottage on Ayrault Street for the season. He hosted Donald M. Dickinson at the home in July 1896.

Baldwin was a member of the Manhattan Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Union Club, the Knickerbocker Club, the Democratic Club and Reform Clubs, the Southern Society, the Down Town Association, the South Side Sportsmen's Club, and the American Geographical Society. He was also a governor of the Newport Casino and member of the Westchester Country Club. She was the daughter, and sole heir, of James Dixon Roman (1809–1867), a U.S. Representative who was president and part owner of Old Hagerstown Bank. Together, Baldwin and Sallie were the parents of four children: Louise Roman Baldwin (1871–1950), who married William Benjamin Bristow (1861–1955), the son of Benjamin Bristow, the 30th U.S. Treasury Secretary and 1st Solicitor General, in 1907. Columbus Calvert Baldwin (1872–1899), who died unmarried at age 26 of typhoid fever.

Baldwin died in Newport, Rhode Island on May 12, 1897.