BALDWIN, MATTHIAS WILLIAM American inventor and manufacturer, was born in Elizabethtown, N.J., on Dec. Io, 1795. He was trained as a jeweller but, being encouraged to engage in the manufacture of locomotives, eventu ally founded the Baldwin Locomotive Works (q.v.). He died in Philadelphia on Sept. 7, 1866.
See W. Calkins, Memorial of Matthias William Baldwin (Phil., 1867) and anon., History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works (1924).