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built the Third street and suburban railway of Seattle, Wash.; and built also the Spokane and Montrose electric railway. In 1895-98 he was receiver of the Merchants' national bank of Seattle. He promoted, organized and completed the Snoqualmie Falls power company, of which he is president

gave the ship Missouri to the United States government, being moved thereto by her record in life-saving. The Missouri rescued almost a thousand persons from sinking and disabled ships; she carried gratuitously food for thirty-thousand people in the Russian famine; and she transported between one and two thousand patients and hospital attaches in the war with Spain. Baker, Mrs. Bertha Kunz, dramatic reader, author, poet, was born in Erie, Pa. She is the author of Art in Education of the Emotions; Practical Problems in Literary Interpretations;, and Studies in Emotional Ex-

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Baker, Caleb, congressman, was born in Providence, R.I. He served four years in the New York state assembly. In 1819-21 he was a representative from New York to the sixteenth congress. He died in New York.

Baker, Charles, soldier, banker, financier,

was born Dec.

He

in

1886 he graduated

from Cornell university with the degree of C.E. In 1884-87 he was resident engineer of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railway; of the CSiieago,

Rock

Island,

and

paci-

railway; of the Chicago and northwestern railway; and in 188790 was resident engineer of the Seattle, Lake shore and eastern railway. In 1890-95 he was engaged as a civil engineer and contractor; fic

chief engineer.

He

also

promoted and

engineered the White river power company. In 1896 he was a delegate to the democratic national convention. Baker, Charles Joseph, merchant, manufacturer, reformer, was born May 28, 1831, in Baltimore, Md. It was through his efforts that the Union railroad and tunnel were constructed. He bought control of the Baltimore Gazette to advance reform movements. He died Sept. 23, 1894, in Baltimore, Md. Baker, Charles Eichard, clergyman, author, was born in 1842 in Massachusetts. In 187398 he was rector of the church of the Messiah at Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the author of The Apostles' Creed Tested by Experience; and Prayers for the Christian Year. He died in 1898 'in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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25, 1867,- in New York City. received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of New York City; received an academic education; and graduated from the Van Norman institute. He served nine years in the twenty-third regiment. He has been auditor of the State trust company; auditor of the Atlantic trust company; and treasurer of the Metropolitan trust company. He is now a successful banker of New York City; and secretary of the Metropolitan trust company. He maintains a summer home at Sea Gate, New York harbor. He is a member of the old guard veteran association of the twenty -third regiment; is a member of the Union league club, Atlantic yacht club. New York historical society and of various other patriotic and social clubs and societies. Baker, Charles Fuller, educator, zoologist, scientist, was born March 22, 1872, in Lansing, Mich. Since 1904 he has been chief of the department of botany at the Estacion agronomica at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. He has made valuable researches on the geographic distribution of plants and animals of the Pacific slope of the Americas. Baker, Charles Hinckley, civil engineer, contractor, business president, was born Nov. 30, 1864, in Chicago, 111. He was educated in the public schools of Chicago, 111.; and

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Baker, Charles Simeon, soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1839, in Churchville, N.Y. During the first year of the civil war he served as first lieuwastenant of Company E, twenty-seventh regiment New York volunteers; and was disabled at the first battle of Bull Run. He was a member of the New York state assembly in 1879, 1880 and 1882; and was a member of the state senate in 1884-85. In 1885-91 he was a representative to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican. He died April 21, 1902, in Washington, D.C.

Baker, Charles Warrington, physician, surgeon, was born on Feb. 12, 1854, in Sedalia, Ohio. He was educated at the London high school of Ohio; and the Starling medical college of Columbus, Ohio. For a while he was an instructor in Parson's college of Fairfield, Iowa. He has attained success as one of the foremost physicians and surgeons of Iowa at Stanwood; and has been surgeon to the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. He has been president of the Cedar county medical society of Iowa; and is a member of several medical and scientific societies.

Baker, Charles Whiting, journalist, authwas born Jan. 17, 1865 in Johnson, Vt. He is managing editor of the Engineering News of New York City. He is the author of Monopolies and the People. or,

Baker, Conrad, governor. In 1867-73 he

was governor

of Indiana.

Baker, Mrs. Cornelia, author, poet, was born June 16, 1855, in Jackson county, Ohio. She is the wife of Wilson G. Baker, of Chicago, 111. She is the author of Young People in Old Places; and The Court Jester.

Baker, Daniel, soldier, was born about He was brevetted major for gallantry in the disastrous affair at Brownstown, 1775.