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to studies relative to the causation of diphtheria, typhoid fever, cholera and pneumonia. Some results have appeared in the Transactions of the American Public Health Association; Transactions of the American Climatologlcal Association; and Reports of Michigan State Board of Health.

Baker, Henry

G.,

lawyer, jurist, was born

Sept. 22, 1857, In Cleveland, Ohio. In 187888 he was a justice of the peace; and in 1888 was elected probate judge for Defiance county, Ohio. He was appointed by the governor as commissioner to the World's Columbian exposition for Ohio.

Baker, Henry Moore, soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born on Jan. 11, 1841, In Bow, N.H. He received' the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native town; attended the academies of

Pembroke and Hop-

kinton; and graduated

from Dartmouth

col-

1863, from which institution he subsequently received the degree of M.A. He then studied law; for several years was in the treasury department of the United States government at Washington, D.C. and for several years practiced his profession in that city. In 1886-87 he was judge advocate general of the national guard of New Hampshire, and with the rank of brigadier-general. In 1891-92 he was a member of the New Hampshire state senate; and was chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1893-97 he was a member of the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses from New Hampshire as a republican. In 1902 he was a member of the constitutional convention of New Hampshire. He is the owner of the valuable water power at Bow Mills, N.H. He has been an extensive travlege

in



eler in

America and Europe. He

ently identified with the

is

ected in the western region about twenty thousand dressed buffalo robes and shipped

them to a market in the east. Louis, Mo.

Baker, James Barnes, civil engineer, archiwas born in 1864 in Elizabeth, N.J. In 1884 he graduated from Lafayette college; and has attained success as a noted civil entect,

gineer and architect of New York City. He erected the bank of commerce, chamber of commerce, united charities and other important buildings in New York City and else-

where.

Baker, James Heaton, soldier, educator, journalist, government official, was born May 6, 1829, in Monroe, Ohio. He removed to Minnesota and became the secretary of that state. He served as a colonel in the army in 1862-63; was made provost-marshal for the department of Missouri; and served as such until the close of the civil war, having been made brigadier-general. He was then appointed register of public lands at Boonville. Mo.; and in 1871-75 was commissioner of pensions.

Baker, James Hutchins, educator, college was born Oct. 13, 1848, in Harmony, Maine. In 1892 he became president of the university of Colorado. He has been president of the president, author,

state

teachers'

asso-

In 1907 he was president of the national association of ciation.

state universities. He originated the scheme which led to the report of the national committee of ten on

prominis

secondary education in the United States. He the author of Elementary Psychology; of

state historical society; has made valuable contributions to that society; has established prizes in the college; and is president of the board of trustees of Pembroke univers-

Education and Life; and other works.

ity.

man, was born July

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 the freight by wagons to the mining towns ; and trading with the Indians. Every year he coll-

died in St.

Baker, James, lawyer, jurist, was bom in Missouri. In 1868 he was appointed associate justice of the state supreme court of Missouri to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nathanial Holmes.

New Hampshire

Baker, Ira Osborn, educator, author, was born Sept. 23, 1853, in Linton, Ind. Since 1882 he has been professor of civil engineering at the university of Illinois. He is the author of Treatise on Masonry Construction; Engineer's Surveying Instruments; Leveling; and Treatise on Boads and Pavements.

He

American Problems;

Baker, James M., lawyer, jurist, states22, 1821, in Robeson county, N.C. In 1862 he was elected by the state 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, James Thompson, educator, clergyman, college president, was bom July 2, 1874, in Wallaeeton, Ky. In 1898 he was vicepresident of Mount Hope college; and ami» 1906 has been president of the college at Clifton. Tenn.

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