Baker, William H
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1827, in Lenox, N. Y. He removed with his parents to Oswego county in 1829, and received his education at the common schools. He became a mechanic and then a school teacher; studied law, and came to the bar in 1851. In 1862 was elected district attorney for Oswego county; reelected in 1866, and in 1874 was chosen a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress.