What is Loammi Baldwin?
[[File:Loammi Baldwin Statue.jpg|thumb|A statue of Loammi Baldwin in [[Woburn, Massachusetts]] which was repaired in the fall of 2007 to replace the missing sword and cleaned.]] '''Colonel Loammi Baldwin''' (January 10, [[1744]]-October 20, 1807) was a noted [[Americans|American]] [[engineer]], [[politician]], and a [[soldier]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]]. Baldwin is known as the Father of American [[Civil Engineering]]. His five sons, Cyrus Baldwin (1773-1854), Benjamin Franklin Baldwin (1777-1821), [[Loammi Baldwin, Jr.]] (1780-1834), [[James Fowle Baldwin]] (1782-1862), and [[George Rumford Baldwin]] (1798-1888) were also well-known engineers. He surveyed and built the [[Middlesex Canal]], but today he is perhaps best remembered for the [[Baldwin (apple)|Baldwin apple]] which he discovered when surveying the Middlesex Canal, and then developed at his farm<ref>[https://archive.org/details/applesofnewyork01beacrich The Apples of NY (1905) at archive.org]</ref> ==Military Career in the American Revolution== In 1774 Baldwin enlisted in a regiment, and commanded the Woburn militia at the [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]] as a major. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the [[26th Continental Regiment]] commanded by Colonel [[Samuel Gerrish]]. Here he rapidly advanced to be lieutenant-colonel, and on Colonel Gerrish's retirement in August 1775, he was placed in command of the regiment, and was soon commissioned colonel. Until the end of 1775, Baldwin and his men stayed near Boston, but in April 1776, he was ordered with his command to [[New York City]]. On the night of December 25, 1776, in the face of a violent and extremely cold storm of snow and hail, General [[George Washington|Washington]] and his army crossed the [[Delaware River|Delaware]] to the [[New Jersey]] side, and fought the [[Battle of Trenton]]. Baldwin and his regiment participated in both the crossing and the fight. In 1777, Baldwin resigned from the army because of ill health. ==Political career== Baldwin was elected to va