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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bakei, Jehu, lawyer, diplomat, congress-

man, was born Nov. 4, 1833,. in Fayette county, Ky. He was master in chancery of St. Clair county in 1861-65. In 1865-69, 1887-89 and 1897-99 he was a representative from Illinois to the thirty-ninth, fortieth, fiftieth and fifty-fifth congresses. He served as United States minister resident to Venezuela in 1878-81 and 1883-85. He died March 1,

1903, in Belleville,

the forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. In 1893-1902 he served as judge of the United States district court of Indiana.

Baker, Joshua, lawyer, governor, was born March 23, 1799, in Kentucky. He graduated from West Point in 1819; and at his death was the oldest graduate in existence. He practiced law in Mary's parish; and in 1839 was appointed judge. In 1867 he was appointed governor of the state by General Hancock. He died April 15, 1893, in St.

Mary's parish, Ky. Baker, Mrs. JuUa Keim Wetherill, journalist, author, was born July 18, 1858, in Woodville, Miss. Her husband, Marion A. Baker, is literary editor of the New Orleans TimesDemocrat; and for many years she has been employed as literary critic and editorial writer on the staff of that journal. She is the author of a novel entitled Wings. Baker, Lafayette Curry, patriot, author,

was born Oct. 13, 1826, in Stafford, N.Y. He was chief of the United States secret service during the civil war; and In 1862 the bureau became attached to the war department, and he was commissioned colonel and subsequently brigadier^general. He was the author of a work entitled History of the United States Secret Service.

He

died July

2,

1868, in

Philadelphia, Pa.

Baker, Lawrence Simons, soldier, business

man, was

bom May

15, 1830, in Gatesville,

he graduated from West Point military academy; and in 1861 resigned as first lieutenant of mounted rifles of the United States army. In 1861 he was appointed

N.C.. In 1851

colonel in the first North Carolina cavalry; was made brigadier-general in 1863; and his right arm was shattered at the battle of Brandy station. From 1864 until the close of the civil war he was in command of the eastern department of North Carolina. He became agent of the Seaboard air line at Suffolk, Va.

He

Baker, Lewis, journalist, legislator, diplomat, was born in 1833 in Belmont county, Ohio.

died in 1907 in Suffolk. Va.

He

edited

and published at different periods the Cambridge Jeffersonian of Ohio; the Daily Ohio Statesman, of Columbus; the Daily Aurora of Zanesville ; the Wheeling Register of West Virginia; and the St. Paul Globe, of Minne-

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Baker, John, lawyer, congressman, was born in Virginia. In 1811-13 he was a representative from Virginia to the twelfth congress. He died Aug. 18, 1833, in Sheperdstown, Va. Baker, John H., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 28, 1833, in Parma, N.Y. He was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan university; and in 1857 entered the practice of law at Goshen, Ind. In 1863 he became a member of the Indiana state senate. In 187581 he was a representative from Indiana to

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He was a member and presiding officer of the West Virginia state senate president of the St. Paul school board; and envoy extraordinary and United States minister, plenipotentiary of Nicaragua, Costa Rica arid Salvador. He died April 30, 1899, in Washington, D.C. sota.



Baker, Louise R., author, poet, was born New Windsor, Md. She is the author of Cis Martin; Sunbeams and Moonbeams; Rosy Posy; The Old Monday Farm; and Mrs. in

Pinner's Little Girl. Baker, Lucien, lawyer, United States senator, was born June 8, 1842, in Fulton county, Ohio. In 1869 he began the practice of law in Leavenworth, Kan.; held the office of city attorney; and served as a member of the Kansas state senate. In 1895-1901 he was United States senator from Kansas as a republican. He died June 32, 1907, in Leav-

enworth, Kan. Baker, Luther B., soldier. During the civil war he attained the rank of lieutenant. He had charge of the party which captured J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln. He died May 25, 1896, in Lansing, Mich. Baker, Marcus, geographer, was born Sept. 23, 1849, in Oshtemo, Mich. He was educated at Kalamazoo college and at the university of Michigan, graduating with degree of A.B. in 1870. In 1870-71 he was professor of mathematics in Albion college of Michigan; in 1871-73 was tutor of mathematics in the university of Michigan; and in 1873-86 was connected with the United States coast and geodetic survey. Since 1886 he has been connected with the United States geological survey, in which he is now cartographer. He was the geographer of the Venezuelan boundary commission. He graduated LL.B. from Columbian university in 1896. He has been a special student of the geography of Alaska. He is also a member of the United States board of geographic names, a board created in 1890 by President Harrison. Of this board he is the secretary and has been since 1892. Baker, Moses Nelson, journalist, author, was born Jan. 26, 1864, in Enosburgh, Vt. He is associate-editor of the Engineering News of New York City. He is the author of Sewage Purification in America; and Sewerage and Sewage Purification. Baker, Nathaniel Bradley, journalist, goTemor, was born Sept. 29, 1818, in Henniker,