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N.H. Tor three years he was joint proprietor

and editor of the

New Hampshire

Patriot. He was elected to the state legislature in 1851; and chosen speaker of the house and served two terms. In 1854-56 he was governor of Iowa. He was elected to the Iowa state legislature in 1859. In 1861-76 he was adjutant-general of Iowa. He died Sept. 11, 1876, in Des Moines, Iowa. Baker, Orville Dewey, lawyer, author, was born Dee. 23, 1847, in Augusta, Maine. He has contributed extensively to current literature. He is a noted lawyer of New England; and has been attorney-general of the state of Maine. Baker, Osmond Cleander, clergyman, bishop, author, was born July 30, 1813, in Marlow, N.H. He was a professor in the General biblical institute of Concord, N.H.; in 1847 was its president. In 1853-71 he was bishop of the methodist episcopal church. He wrote Guide Book in the Administration of Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died Dec. 20, 1871, in Concord, N.H.

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Baker, Osmyn, lawyer, congressman, was born May 18, 1800, in Amherst, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1833-34. In 1839-45 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twentyeighth congresses. He was state councilor in 1853-54. He died in Massachusetts. Baker, Peter Carpenter, publisher, author, was born March 25, 1822, in North Hempstead, N.Y. In 1865 he established the lawpublishing firm of Baker, Voorhis and company, which is still in existence. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan literary association; edited the Steam Press, a patriotic periodical, during the civil war of 186165; and originated the plan for a statue of Benjamin Franklin in Printing-house "square of New York, which was given by Albert De Groot. He published European Recollection^ and Benjamin Franklin. He died May 19, 1889, in

Baker,

New York

was born April he

City.

Ray Stannard, 17, in

litterateur, author, Lansing, Mich. In 1899

graduated from Michigan agricultural with the degree of B.S.; and took a

college partial

law course and studied literature at the university of Michigan. He has traveled extensively; and contributed a series of articles on the great southwest and the great northwest to the Century in 1902-03. He is now associate-editor of McClure's Magazine. He is the author of Boys' Book of Inventions; Our New Prosperity; Seen in Germany; and Second Boys' Book of Inventions. Baker, Remember, pioneer, was born about 1740 in Woodbury, Conn. He served in the French war of 1757-59 and was in the bloody attack on Ticonderoga in 1758. In 1764 he went to Arlington, in the New Hampshire grants, settled there and became one of the leaders of the Green Mountain Boys, aiding Ethan Allen in his struggles against the claims of New York to that

part of the country. He met his death at the hands of the Indians when on a scouting expedition on Richelieu river at the outlet of Lake Champlain. He died in August,

Lake Champlain. Baker, Robert, economist, congressman, was born in 1863 in England. He is a prominent member of the single tax league; and has been secretary and national committeeman of that league. In 1903-05 he was a representative from Brooklyn to the fiftyeighth congress as a democrat. Baker, Robert Fulton, soldier, was born in New York. In 1836 he graduated from the Ijnited States military academy; and served until 1844. He died Dec. 13, 1848. Baker, Mrs. Sarah Woods, author, was born in 1824 in New Haven, Conn. She was the author of the following works: The Babes in the Basket; The Aunt Friendly 1775, in

Timid Lucy; Pictures of Swedish Our Elder Brother; Salt; and six volumes of stories. Her maiden name was Sarah Books; Life;

She died in 1906 in Sweden. Baker, Smith, physician, neurologist, scien-

Tuthill.

was born Sept. 25, 1850, in Marcy, N.Y. Since 1871 he has been a practicing physician in Whitesboro and Utica, N.Y. In 1884 and in 1893-93 he was lecturer on the preservation of health at Colgate university; and in 1884 received the honorary degree of A.M. from that institution. He has made valuable researches on normal and abnormal psychology. Baker, Stephen, merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 12, 1819, in New York City. At an early age he engaged in mercantile pursuits; from which he retired in 1849 to a country seat in Dutchess county, N.Y. In 1861-63 he was a representative from New York to the thirty-seyenth congress. He died June 9, 1875, on train near Ogden, Utah. Baker, Tarkington, soldier, journalist, author, was born Aug. 6, 1878, in Vincennes, Ind. In 1898-99 he served in the SpanishAmerican war. He is the author of The Yard. Baker, Thomas, farmer, educator, jurist, statesman, was born Aug. 6, 1827, in Glover, Vt. He received the rudiments of his education in the city public schools; and graduated from the Brownington and St. Johnsbury acatist,

demy. For a number of years he was a school teacher; and

subsequently became a

farmer of N.D. For five years he served as a successful

Hope,

member

of the

Dakota state

North

legislajustice

ture; has been of the peace; and has filled numerous other positions of trust and honor. His great grandfather, Thomas Baker the fifth who in 1750 settled in Keene, N.H., was a successful

manufacturer; and one of its principal streets is

named Baker

in his honor.