Presidential Address
Religion Still the Key to History
In Memoriam
From the American Historical Review 32:3 (April 1927)
Simeon E. Baldwin (February 5, 1840–January 30, 1927), president of the American Historical Association for the year 1906, died on January 30, within a few days of the age of eighty-seven. For fifty years, 1869 to 1919, he had taught in the Yale Law School; he had been an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut from 1893 to 1907, chief justice from 1907 to 1911, and governor of the state from 1911 to 1915. He had been president of the American Bar Association and had done important legislative work in the improvement of legal procedure in Connecticut. Governor Baldwin, besides being a high legal authority and an excellent historical scholar, was a man of wide reading and penetrating intelligence. He was a man of the highest type of Puritan character, as befitted one whose ancestors had long had an important part in the life of his commonwealth: in spite of much austerity of manner his life was marked, not only by constant public spirit, but by many private acts of benevolence and kindness.
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