Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)

Notes


14756. Augustus Carpenter Baldwin


Augustus Carpenter Baldwin

U.S. Congressman. While as a school teacher, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced to practice law in Milford, Michigan. He was a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives, (1844-46), prosecuting attorney of Oakland County, (1853-54) and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, in 1860. In 1863, he was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving until 1865. After his term, he Mayor of Pontiac, Michigan, in 1874, judge of the sixth judicial circuit court of Michigan, (1875-80) and a member of the Pontiac School Board, until he retired from public service in 1886.


Byron Gray Stout


Stout Family History
Compiled by the American Genealogical Research Institute
Washington, DC, pgs.69-71.

Byron Gray Stout [12 January 1829 - 19 June 1896]: representative from Michigan. Byron was born in Richmond, Ontario County, New York. After attending the common schools, he later graduated from the University of Michigan in 1851. While pursuing his career, Stout studied law and was the superintendent and principal of the Pontiac High School. From 1855 to 1857 he was a member of the State House of Representatives. He was also a Speaker of the House in 1857. In 1860 he became a member of the State Senate. He served as a member of the Union Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866 and continued his services as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of New York in 1868, at Cincinnati in 1880, and at St. Louis in 1888. He entered into private banking prior to 1869. He was a Decocratic member of the Fifty-second Congress, serving from March 1891 to March 1893. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1892. Stout returned to his home in Pontiac, Michigan and became president of the Oakland County Bank.