Charles Sears Baldwin (21 March 1867 – 23 October 1935) was an American scholar and professor of rhetoric at Yale University.
Born in New York City in 1867, Baldwin entered Columbia College at seventeen and received his A.B.
[1] He was one of the earliest students to be granted the Ph.D. degree in English at Columbia.
[2] Besides teaching at Yale (1895–1911), Baldwin also worked at Barnard College[3] and Columbia University.
He was married twice, first in 1894 to Agnes Irwin (who died in 1897), and then to Gratia Eaton Whited in 1902.