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Baker, George Pierce
educator, author, was born in 1866, in Rhode Island.
He is an instructor at Harvard university, and the author of Plot Book of Elizabethan Plays; and Principles of Argumentation.
Baker, George Titus
civil engineer, legislator, was born Sept. 24, 1857, in Homestead, Iowa. He attended the Iowa state university in 1874-75, and he is a member of a large construction company of Davenport, Iowa. During 1896-97 he served with distinction as a representative in the Iowa state legislature.
Baker, George W
educator, clergyman, was born Dec. 14, 1857, near Central Academy, Miss. For fourteen years he was engaged in educational work; was licensed to preach in the methodist episcopal church in 1887; was admitted to the annual conference at Grenada in 1896; and was ordained Jan. 17, 1897. He has since served in the Corinth circuit, with great success.
Baker, Henry Brooks
physician, was born Dec. 29, 1837, in Brattlesborough, Vt. He has devoted much time to studies relative to the causation of diphtheria, typhoid fever, cholera, and pneumonia. The results thus far obtained have appeared in the Transactions of the American Public Health Association; and Transactions of the American Climatological Association, 1886.
Baker, Henry G
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 22, 1857, in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of twenty-one he was elected justice of the peace and ten years later was elected probate judge of Defiance county, Ohio. He was appointed by the governor as commissioner to the Columbian exposition for Ohio.
Baker, Isaac Gilbert
merchant, was born Aug. 22, 1819, in Rigfield, Mo.
In 1866 he engaged in mercantile business, operating the Baker line of steamboats, transporting freight by wagons to the mining towns, and trading with the Indians. Every year he collected in the western region about twenty thousand dressed buffalo robes and shipped them to a market in the east.
Baker, James L
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 2, 1847, in Montgomery, N. Y.
He received his education at the Ithaca academy, and graduated from the law department of Union college. He has attained success as an eminent lawyer of Ithaca, N. Y.; has been its city attorney, and filled with honor the position of special county judge of Tompkins County, N. Y.
Baker, James M
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born July 22, 1821, in Robeson county, N. C. In 1862 he was elected by the legislature of Florida as senator in the confederate congress; and was re-elected in 1864. In 1866 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court; and in 1881 was appointed judge of the fourth judicial circuit. He died June 20, 1892, in Jacksonville, Fla.
Baker, Joanna
educator, linguist, was born Feb. 14, 1862, in New Rochelle, Ill. She received a thorough education; is a fine linguist; and now fills the chair of Greek, language, literature and philosophy in the Simpson college of Indianola, Iowa. As a lecturer she has also attained success.
Baker, John
lawyer, congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1811 to 1813. He died Aug. 18, 1823, in Sheperdstown, Va.
Baker, John H
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 28, 1832, in Parma township, N. Y. He removed, studied law, and commenced practice in Goshen, Ind., in 1857. He was state senator in 1862; in 1874 was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fourth congress and was re-elected to the fortyfifth and forty-sixth congresses.
Baker, Lafayette C
patriot, author, was born Oct. 13, 1826, in Stafford, N. Y. He was chief of the United States secret service during the civil war; and in 1862 the bureau became attached to the war department, and he was commissioned colonel, and subsequently brigadiergeneral. He was the author of a work entitled History of the United States Secret Service. He died July 2, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.