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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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GEORGE BAKERGEORGE BAKER, undertaker, Pleasantville, was born in Lewiston, Niagara County, N. Y., July 30, 1830. His parents were Nathan and Prudence (Walker) Baker, who settled in Greene County, Ind., in November 1839. The education of subject was principally acquired in New York, except what he received in Lewiston previous to nine years of age. He farmed from nine to twenty-one years of age; twenty-one to twenty-eight, in a cabinet shop; twenty-eight to forty, a farmer; forty to forty-seven, a merchant, since which time he has been in the cabinet and undertaking business in Sullivan County. He was married June 9, 1855, to Margaret Halstead. His wife is a member of the Christian Church, but Mr. Baker is not a member of any church, but a Methodist in principle. He is not much of a politician, but a very strong Republican, and has been for a number of years. He came to Sullivan County in 1874, and went into the mercantile business with William P. O'Haver, which continued five years, and in the fall of 1878 went into the cabinet and undertaking business with William Hines, which continued two years. Mr. Baker still remains, and is the people's general undertaker and cabinet-maker. He has seen a great change in Indiana during his residence, from almost a wilderness up to its present conditon. In 1840, his father bought perhaps the first cook-stove in the county. As to relics, he has in his possession one silver tablespoon which is over 200 years old. It belonged to his grandmother's grandmother and grandfather, Sarah and Nathan Mulford. He has also some other curiosities. Mr. Baker has a boy that he is raisng that has quite a history. His great-grandfather was murdered by the Indians, and his grandfather and a brother were captured by the Indians at the time of the murder.JEFFERSON TWP. PAGE 786 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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