Noyes+Baldwin


 * Noyes Baldwin **


 * Democrat • Fremont County **
 * Member of the Constitutional Convention 1889 **

Noyes Baldwin was born on September 8, 1826 in Woodbridge, Connecticut. During the gold rush of 1849, he moved to California and became a contractor in San Francisco. In 1854, he traveled to Peru to recover gold bullion from a sunken vessel but was unsuccessful. Several years later, in the fall of 1859, enticed by news of the Nevada gold rush, he moved to Gold Hill, Nevada. His family joined him a year later. In 1863, during the Civil War, Baldwin organized the First Nevada Cavalry. Commissioned as an officer, he served at Fort Churchill, Fort Douglas (Utah), Post Provo, and Fort Bridger (Wyoming). After he was mustered out in 1866, he obtained a government license to trade with the Shoshones at the mouth of the Popo Agie River. The enterprise was short-lived and was abandoned the following spring. In 1868, he established a store at South Pass and initiated trade with the Native Americans in the Lander Valley on Baldwin Creek. After Camp Stambaugh was established, Baldwin was appointed the first post trader. When the post was abandoned in 1878, the family then moved to Lander, where Baldwin built and operated a general store until 1889, when he disposed of his business to his son and an associate. Baldwin died in Lander on January 12, 1893.

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 * [|"Noyes Baldwin"], Find A Grave memorial (accessed June 2015)