From: Leslie Gunter 
To: BAKER_BOLIN-L@rootsweb.com 
Subject: Biography of Alexander S. Baker
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 11:40 PM

ALEXANDER S. BAKER, minister of the M. P. Church, was born February 12,
1827, on the western shore of Maryland, and is a son of Malden and Liza
(Culenbaugh) Baker. Malden Baker was born September 22, 1802, and was about
thirty years old when he moved to this State and settled on Indian Creek. He
raised the first tobacco raised in the county, and labored as an ordained
local preacher. Alexander S. Baker was married November 11, 1852, to Sarah
A. Johnston, who died July 11,1865, leaving six children. August 16,1866, he
wedded Mrs. Nancy E. Hagan, a native of Rush County, to which union were
born three children--Elma, Hugh and Henry. Mr. Baker obtained his education
principally by the firelight at home, continuing his studies long after he
was married. Mr. Baker is a member of the Masonic fraternity of the degree
of Royal Arch; he is also a radical temperance worker, and an esteemed
citizen, and an honorable conscientious gentleman.


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