Baldwin, Asa Columbus, 1887-1942

Asa Columbus Baldwin was born in Austinburg, Ohio, in 1887. He received a B.A. in Civil and Mining Engineering from Case University, Ohio, and a B.S. in law from George Washington University. He was married to Lillian Louise Smith from 1917 until her death in 1933. They had 3 children. In 1935 he married Marguerite Holliday. Asa Baldwin had an extensive career as a civil engineer, surveyor, consulting engineer, and lecturer. He assisted in the first U.S. government marine survey of Kodiak and the Aleutian Islands in 1909. From 1907 to 1913 as a surveyor for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, he was assigned to the U.S.-Canada International Boundary Commission, Mount St. Elias to Arctic Ocean 141st Meridian Boundary Demarcation Survey. The epic ascent of mount St. Elias in June-July 1913 by Mr. Baldwin and his joint U.S. Canadian six-man survey team to the 16,500 foot level, to establish the termination of the 141st meridian survey from the Arctic Ocean, is a major and well-documented mountain climbing event in North America. He was the president of Yellow Band Gold Mines, Inc. from 1936 until 1942 and consultant for the Boundary Commission, Kennicott Copper Co., Prince of Wales Mines, Alaska-Juneau Mine, the Alaska Railroad, Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Schlumberger Electrical Prospecting Methods of Paris, France. He died of a heart attack, September 18, 1942.

Asa Columbus Baldwin was a field officer, civil engineer, and consultant for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of the International Boundary Commission as well as for other surveys in Alaska. Baldwin was later president of Yellow Band Gold Mines, Inc., in the Bremner River District of Alaska.

Asa C. Baldwin was born in Ohio. He studied civil and mining engineering at Case Western Reserve University and law at George Washington University. He was a civil engineer for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, a field officer for the United States-Canadian International Boundary Survey, the leader of the first ascent of Mount St. Elias (1913), a consultant to the Boundary Commission and later to mining companies in Alaska, and a field engineer for the Copper River Railroad. Baldwin lectured on Alaska at various colleges and universities (1930-1932) and later became the chief geodetic engineer for the United States-Canadian International Boundary Survey, and the president of Yellow Band Independent Gold Mine near Chitna, Alaska.

Field officer, civil engineer, consultant for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey of the International Boundary Commission establishing the boundary line between Alaska and Canada from Mount St. Elias north to the Arctic Ocean, 1907 to 1913 as well as numerous other surveys in the territory of Alaska. Also known as an authority and lecturer on Alaska. President of Yellow Band Gold Mines, Inc., located in the Bermner River district.