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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Baker, Thomas Hudson, soldier, physician, surgeon, planter, statesman, was born April 28, 1839, in Bartow county, Ga. He received a thorough education in the public schools of his native state;

and

graduated

modern German

literature at Johns Hopkins university of Baltimore, Md. In 1900-08 he was professor in the Jacob Tome institute at Port Deposit, Md.; and since 1908 has been headmaster of that institute. He is the

author of Lenau and Young Germany in America. Baker, Wendell, champion runner, was born Oct. 19, 1863, in Brooklyn, N.Y. During his preparation for college and subsequently until his graduation he distinguished himself by winning twenty-one championships at university and intercollegiate meetings.

Baker, William, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born April 29, 1831, in Washington county, Pa. For many years he has been engaged in farming and stock raising in Lincoln county, Kan. In 1891-97 he was a representative from Kansas to the fifty-second, fifty-third

and fifty-fourth congresses.

Baker, William Benjamin, merchant, congressman, was born July 32, 1840, near Aberdeen, Md. In 1872 he commenced fruit packing; and has been engaged in that business ever since. He has frequently been a delegate to state and congressional conventions; and was elected to the house of delegates as a republican in 1881; and to the state senate in 1893. In 1895-1901 he was a representative from Maryland to the fifty-fourth, fiftyfifth and fifty-sixth congresses as a republican.

Baker, William Bliss, painter, artist, was born in 1859 in New York City. He took the first prize in the antique school of the academy in 1879; and was awarded the third Hallgarten prize of one hundred dollars in 1884 for his Woodland Brook. One of his recent paintings exhibited at the national academy is In the Old Pasture. Baker, William H., portrait painter, artist, was born in 1835 in Lenox, N.Y. One of his best portraits is that of Bishop Quintard 14

of Tennessee, painted for the episcopal general convention. He died May 39, 1875, in

Brooklyn, N.Y. Baker, William H., educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 17, 1837, in Lenox, N.Y. In 1863 was elected district attorney for O.swego county; and was re-elected in 1866. In 1875-79 he was a representative

from

the Washington university of Maryland. During the civil war he was company commander in the eighteenth regiment Georgia volunteers; and he subsequently became assistant surgeon, then surgeon, and at the surrender waS ungade surgeon. In 1873-76 he was a representative in the Georgia state legislature; and in 1880-81 and 1900-01 was a member of the Georgia state senate. Baker, Thomas Stockham, educator, author, was born March 33, 1871, in Aberdeen, Md. Since 1900 he has been a lecturer on

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forty-fourth

forty-fifth congresses. In 1894 he was a member of the constitutional convention.

Baker, William Mumford, clergyman, au-

was born June 37, 1835, in Washington, D.C. He was a presbyterian clergyman in the southwest until 1870; and afterwards was pastor of a church in Boston, Mass. He was the author of Inside a Chronicle of Secession; The Virginians in Texas; Oak thor,

,

The New Timothy

Mose Evans His Myself; Blessed St. Certainty; A Year Thirlmore; Carter Quarterman;

Mot







Majesty

Living; Colonel Dunwoddie: MillionThe Making of a Man; The Ten Theophanies; The Manifestations of Christ Before His Birth in Bethlehem; and John

Worth aire;

Westacott, a juvenile tale. He died Aug. 20, 1883, in South Boston, Mass. Baker, William Spohn, antiquarian, author, was born April 17, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pa. He possessed a collection of engraved portraits of George Washington which was the most complete known; and his number of medals of Washington was •second only to that of William S. Appleton of Boston; while his collection of biographies of Washington was most noted in existence. He was the author of Origin and Antiquity of Engraving; American Engravers and Their Works; William Sharp, Engraver, and His Works; Engraved Portraits of Washington Medallic Portraits of Washington; Character Portraits of Washington;

Bibliotheca Washingtoniana and Itinerary of George Washington. He died Sept. 10, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pa. Baker, William Taylor, grain merchant, president world's fair, was born Sept. 11, 1841, in West Winfield, N.Y. He was educated in the public schools of his native

town; and in 1878 graduated from Groton academy. For many years he was engaged in the grain trade in Chicago, 111.; and was five times president of the Chicago board of trade. He was president of the World's Columbian exposition; and twice served as president of the civic federation. He died Oct. 6, 1903, in Highland Park, 111. Balatka, Hans, musician, composer, was bom March 5, 1837, in Moravia. In 1851 he founded the Milwaukee Musikverein; and was its conductor until 1860. He lived in Chicago, where he organized the Mozart club. He was the author of The Power of Song; Festival Cantata; and about thirty songs. He died April 17, 1899, in Chicago, 111. Balbach, Edward, smelter, refiner, inventor, was born March 19, 1804, in Germany.

He patented a

de-silverizing process, com-