From: Leslie Gunter 
To: BAKER_BOLIN-L@rootsweb.com 
Subject: Biography James A. Baker
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 11:41 PM

Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. 1884, Charles Blanchard, F.
A. Battey & Co., Publishers

RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY, INDIANA PAGE 623


JAMES A. BAKER, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Clarke County, Ind.,
August 20, 1824, and is the eldest of the family of nine children of JESSE
and SARAH (ROBERTSON) BAKER, natives respectively of South Carolina and
Virginia. Jesse Baker was orphaned when seven years old, and went to live
with an uncle, with whom, in 1815, he came to and settled in Clarke County,
there married, farmed on leased land until 1831, when he purchased land, and
remained thereon until 1848, at which time he purchased a saw and grist mill
near Utica, managed the same until 1854, and afterward farmed until his
death in 1876, aged seventy-eight years, his wife having preceded him in
1866. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Christian Church. James A.
Baker worked for his father and attended school, but obtained the major part
of his education by after-study. In 1846, he enlisted in Company I, Third
Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry; recruited for the war against Mexico,
in which he served one year, and took part at Buena Vista. After returning,
he engaged in milling with his father, and in 1854 purchased land, farmed
until 1857, after which he bought land near Utica, and August, 1865, located
at his present home, comprising 225 acres of good grass and farm land. Mr.
Baker is a hard-working man, and for thirty years combined his trade of
carpentering with farming and stock-dealing. January 28, 1851, he married
MARGARET A. LITTELL, with an issue of six children--JESSE T., REUBEN A.
(deceased), SARAH A., CHARLES E., MARY LUELLA and WILLIAM F. (deceased). Mr.
and Mrs. Baker are members of the Church of Christ.


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