Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Compiled and
Published by the John M. Gresham Company, Chicago--Philadelphia, 1896, pp
2-3 [Mason Co]

CHARLES BALDWIN POYNTZ, distiller of Maysville, late railroad commissioner,
and an influential citizen, son of Samuel B. and Mary (Dewees) Poyntz, was
born in Maysville, July 17, 1853.  He was educated, principally, in
Cincinnati, Ohio, to which city his father removed in 1865; and was employed
in the accounting department of the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad for
several years, and was made assistant paymaster of that company when he was
twenty-five years of age.  He was locatd in Indianapolis for eight years of
the time that he was in the service of the railroad company.
     In 1881 he resigned and came to Maysville to engage in the distillery
and jobbing business with his father and brother, Benjamin B. Poyntz & Sons
until the death of the senior member of the firm in 1890, when he and his
brother took charge of the business, since which time the well known house
has sustained its reputation as one of the most reliable and substantial
establishments in the state.
     In 1886, Mr. Poyntz was elected to the Maysville City Council and was
made president of that body in 1887.  In 1888 he was a delegate to the
National Democratic Convention which gave President Cleveland his second
nomination; in 1889 he was elected to the Kentucky Senate from Mason and
Lewis Counties and was recognized as one of the ablest men in that body,
being chairman of the Finance Committee; was chairman of the Ninth
Congressional District Democratic Committee for eight years; and at the same
time chairman of the Appellate Court District Committee, and was appointed
Railroad Commissioner for the Third (Eastern) District in 1892,
which office he held until December, 1895.  His record as a business man and
as an official is one in which his friends indulge a pardonable pride.  It
is without spot, scratch or blemish.
     Mr. Poyntz was married December 24, 1878, to Alice Craig of
Crawfordsville, Indiana, an accomplished and charming woman.
     Samuel B. Poyntz, father of Charles B. Poyntz, was born in Mason County
in 1819; died August, 1890.  He was for some years engaged in the wholesale
grocery business in Cincinnati, and for many years before his death he was
similarly engaged--in connection with distilling--in Maysville.  He was a
gentleman of high character and standing, and one of the most successful
business men in northern Kentucky.
     Mary Dewees Poyntz (mother) was the eldest daughter of John Coburn
Dewees, one of five sisters, all of whom were remarkable for their personal
attractions.
     William Poyntz (paternal grandfather) was a native of Pennsylvania and
one of the early settlers of Kentucky.  His wife was a Miss Baldwin of
Washington, Mason County.
     John Coburn Dewees (maternal grandfather), a native of Lexington,
Kentucky, was for many years a leading citizen of Mason County.  His wife,
Maria Bayless, was connected by marriage and blood with many of the
principal families of this state, and was a sister of the late Dr. Benjamin
Bayless, an eminent surgeon of Louisville.

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