Baldwin, Charles H.

Gerrit Smith Miller was a cattle breeder who developed the Holstein-Friesian cattle breeding industry in the United States. He was a member of the New York State Legislature in 1880, and held several other positions as a public official. Collection includes extensive correspondence with his friends and family members.

Scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed items pertaining to milk marketing, pricing, and control, strikes, the appointment of Charles H. Baldwin as New York State Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets, and other material concerning the dairy industry, including a scrapbook of clippings on the New York State Fair and various county fairs.

Records include correspondence, citations and resolutions, speeches, membership lists, an 1859 catalog from the Society's museum, and printed and mimeographed copies of proceedings and minutes of annual meetings. Includes correspondence of Charles H. Baldwin, Perley M. Eastman, Joseph M. Hurley, and Van C. Whittemore.