From: Leslie Gunter 
To: BAKER_BOLIN-L@rootsweb.com 
Subject: Biography of Samuel Baker
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 11:08 PM

Atlas of Steuben County 1880 P. 52 clm 3  Otsego Township       

        BAKER,SAMUEL, son of John Baker and Sarah Stoner, was born in 
Franklin County, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1801.  His father and mother, 
natives of Pennsylvania, moved to Virginia in 1820, where they resided 
about 16 years, when they came to Ohio; the former died in 1847, the 
latter in 1854.  On the 5th of November, 1829, Samuel Baker and Miss 
Sarah Shriver were united in marriage, in Loudown County, Va.  They had 
ten children--John S., Elizabeth, Sarah (deceased), Christopher, Jacob, 
Thomas, Margaret(deceased), Nathaniel, Samuel, Daniel (deceased).  Mr. 
Samuel Baker removed to Ohio about eight years after his father, and 
settled near his father on an eighty acre farm, where he remained for 
about fourteen years, when he, with his devoted wife and seven children, 
came to this township and began a new home in the wilderness, where, by 
industry and honesty of purpose, he has succeeded well, and today is the 
fortunate owner of 640 acres of choice land, which, by the aid of his 
sons, is one of the best-improved farms in this section.  The children, 
except two, are married and well situated.  Nathaniel and Elizabeth live 
with the father and mother, and are unmarried.  All this family are 
members of the M.E. Church.  Mr. Baker and his sons, excepting John, are 
Republicans.

Submitted by J.A. Childers

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