Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of
American Biography of the Nineteenth
Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association,
1902.

page 70

BAKER, WILLIAM B., merchant, congressman, was born
July 22, 1840, near Aberdeen, Md. He was educated at public
and private schools; worked upon a farm until thirty-two years
of age, when 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
although his county is strongly democratic, he was elected to
the house of delegates as a republican in 1881 and to the
state senate in 1893. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and
re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

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