Baker, Grafton
jurist, was born in Virginia and removed to Mississippi, from which state he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of New Mexico.
BAKER, MRS. HARRIETTE NEW- ELL, author, was born in 1815, in Andover, Mass. Besides two novels, Cora and the Doctor, The Courtesies of Wedded Life, her writings include nearly two hundred moral and religious tales, among which Tim the Scissors Grinder is the best known. She is best known by the pseudonyms of Madeline Leslie and Aunt Hally. She died in 1893.