Baker, Dorsey Synge – Baker, James M
Baker, Dorsey Synge
physician, banker, was born Oct. 28, 1823, in Centerville, Ill. In 1871 he took steps to organize a railroad company to build a line from Walla Walla to Wallula. This road, the first in the territory, was built entirely from his own means and was finished in 1873. His principal properties were The Baker and Boyer bank in Walla Walla; and The Walla Walla and Columbia River Railroad.
Baker, Edward D
lawyer, soldier, congressman, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in London, England. He was brought to this country when a child, and was early left an orphan in Philadelphia. He became famous as an advocate in Illinois, to which state he emigrated in his nineteenth year.
After serving in the Illinois legislature for two years, he resigned, and, in 1846, went to Mexico as a colonel of volunteers. He was a representative in congress from Illinois from 1849 to 1851, after which he took an active part in the building of the Panama railroad. In 1852 he settled in San Francisco, devoting himself to his profession; subsequently removed to Oregon, which state he represented as a senator in congress, taking his seat in March, 1861. At the outbreak of the rebellion, in 1861, he raised a body of men in Philadelphia, called the California regiment, and while gallantly leading them in battle at Leesburg, Va., against a superior force, was shot from his horse and killed, Oct. 21, 1861.
Baker, Enos Pomeroy
clergyman, college president, was born Dec. 20, 1856, in West Bloomfield, N. Y. He graduated from Lake Forest university as valedictorian in 1882, and in 1886 from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, now the McCormick Theological seminary, of Chicago. He had charge of several churches, and is now president of the Presbyterian College of the Southwest, of Del Norte, Colo.
Baker, Ezra
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1815 to 1817.
Baker, Frank R
legislator and lawyer, was born Nov. 11, 1861, in Bentonsport, Iowa. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Washington state legislature, and has since attained prominence as an orator and statesman.
Baker, Frederick A
was born June 14, 1846, in Holly, Mich. He commenced the study of the law in 1865, was admitted to the bar in 1867, and has been in active practice ever since. In 1877 he served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature.
Baker, George Augustus
lawyer, author, was born in 1821, in New York City. He was a successful lawyer of New York and the author of Point Lace and Diamonds, a collection of sparkling society verse; The Bad Habits of Good Society; Mrs. Hephaestus and Other Short Stories; and West Point: a Comedy. He died April 2, 1880, in New York City.
Baker, George Hall
librarian, was born April 23, 1850, in Ashfield, Mass.
In 1883 he joined the staff of Columbia college library as assistant librarian. During 1885-89 he was lecturer in the school of political science in Columbia college on the bibliography of history and political science.
Baker, George Melville
author,' was born in 1832, in Maine. He was the author and compiler of Amateur Dramas; the Social Stage; and works of like character. He died in 1890.
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, 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.
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, Henry M
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1841, in Bow, N. H. He graduated from the New Hampshire Conference seminary in 1859, Dartmouth college in 1863, and the Columbian College Law school in 1866, and admitted to the bar the same year.
He was a clerk in the war and treasury departments, and later practiced law in Washington, D. C.
He was judge-advocate-general of the National guard of New Hampshire in 1886-'87, with the rank of brigadier-general; and was a member of the state senate in 1891-'92. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican from the second district of New Hampshire, and in 1894 was re-elected by a greatly increased majority. He was not again a candidate for re-election.
In congress he served on the judiciary and other important committees. Several of his speeches were printed in pamphlet form and extensively circulated.
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 H
soldier, public official, was born May 6, 1829, in Monroe, Ohio. He received his education at the Wesleyan university of that state; became a teacher, and had charge of a female seminary at Richmond, Ind. In 1853 he purchased the Scioto Gazette and became its editor; in 1855 was elected secretary of state for Ohio, and subsequently removed to Minnesota and became the secretary of that state. He served as a colonel in the army in 1862 and 1863; was made provost-marshal for the department of Missouri, and served as such until the close of the rebellion, having been made a brigadier-general. He was then appointed register of public lands at Boonville, Mo., and in 1871 was appointed commissioner of pensions, resigning the position in 1875. once
Baker, James Hutchins
educator, college president, author, was born Oct. 13, 1848, in Harmony, Maine. In 1873 he graduated from Bates college and at entered into educational work as principal of the Yarmouth High school.
From the beginning of his residence in Colorado, he has identified himself closely with the educational interests of that state. For seventeen years he was connected with the East Denver High school, and during his administration the magnificent High school building, second to none in the United States, was erected -a lasting and a splendid memorial of his work. In 1892 he assumed his duties as president of the university of Colorado. He has been president of the state teachers' association, and since 1886 has served as a member of the national council of education, being elected its president in 1891. He is the author of Elementary Psychology and other works; and his reputation rests chiefly on his studies and investigation of problems in psychology and ethics.
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.