Bibliography: Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of
American Biography of the Nineteenth
Century, Chicago, IL:American Publishers' Association,
1902.
p. 69
BAKER, ISAAC GILBERT, merchant, was born Aug. 22,
1819, in Rigfield, Mo. In 1866 he engaged in mercantile
business, operating the Baker line of steam-boats,
transporting freight by wagons to the mining towns, and
trading with the Indians. Every year he collected in the
western region about twenty thousand dressed buffalo
robes and shipped them to a market in the east.
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