The son of John Boggs & Eleanor (English) Baker, he married Susanna Bixler Shuman February 27, 1859, and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1860, he was a teacher and carpenter living with his family in Saville Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 8" tall with brown hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty in Harrisburg March 2, 1865, and mustered into federal service there March 9 as a sergeant with the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. F. He was promoted to 1st sergeant, date as yet unknown, and honorably discharged with his company August 25, 1865.
Newport News, October 18, 1900
Prof. William E. Baker, one of the oldest, ablest and most successful teachers of this county, died of heart failure Tuesday evening at 5:45 o'clock, at his home in Eshcol. Friday morning, September 28, he had a chill, but he went to his school at Eshcol and taught all day, although he was scarcely able to be on his feet. Having improved, he taught the following Monday by great effort, but was unable to leave his bed the next day. While the immediate cause of his death was heart failure, he first took sick with remittent fever and was threatened with a complication of diseases, embracing pneumonia, rheumatism, enlargement of prostate gland and bronchitis. Mr. Baker was born in Juniata Township, Perry county, in a place known as *Leggett, on April 20, 1834. He was a self-made man, with no advantage excepting a fine, penetrating mind and noble impulses. For many years he has stood at the head of the teachers profession in this county and was always an important factor in the County Institutes by reason of his intellectual superiority and genuine manhood. His pupils always found him a man worthy of emulation, although it was probably the fortune of but few of them to retain to his eminence in the aquirement and use of knowledge as imparted by hard study and close application. February 27, 1859, he was united in marriage to Miss Susanna Shuman, daughter of the late Samuel Shuman. She with the following children, survives him; Samuel and John, of Washington, D.C.; ex-District Attorney Luke Baker, of New Bloomfield; Mark T. of Galion, Ohio; Mrs. H.J. Wickey, of Middletown, Pa.; Mrs. Willis Shull, of Ickesburg, and Miss Daisy, at home; Dr. J.D. Baker, of Eshcol, and Peter Baker, of Cassville, Huntingdon county, are his surviving brothers. He was a soldier of the Civil War, in which he served as First Sergeant of Company F. 104th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Funeral services were held on Friday morning at 10 o'clock, in the Lutheran church at Eshcol.
The naming of his first son "Mark Twain Baker" is fascinating but almost certainly was to honor author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, as Clemens would not publish his first story until five years after Mark Twain Baker's birth. Only if Mark himself had assumed the middle name later in life could it have been to honor the author.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty in Harrisburg March 2, 1865, and mustered into federal service there March 9 as a sergeant with the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. F. He was promoted to 1st sergeant, date as yet unknown, and honorably discharged with his company August 25, 1865.
Newport News, October 18, 1900
Prof. William E. Baker, one of the oldest, ablest and most successful teachers of this county, died of heart failure Tuesday evening at 5:45 o'clock, at his home in Eshcol. Friday morning, September 28, he had a chill, but he went to his school at Eshcol and taught all day, although he was scarcely able to be on his feet. Having improved, he taught the following Monday by great effort, but was unable to leave his bed the next day. While the immediate cause of his death was heart failure, he first took sick with remittent fever and was threatened with a complication of diseases, embracing pneumonia, rheumatism, enlargement of prostate gland and bronchitis. Mr. Baker was born in Juniata Township, Perry county, in a place known as *Leggett, on April 20, 1834. He was a self-made man, with no advantage excepting a fine, penetrating mind and noble impulses. For many years he has stood at the head of the teachers profession in this county and was always an important factor in the County Institutes by reason of his intellectual superiority and genuine manhood. His pupils always found him a man worthy of emulation, although it was probably the fortune of but few of them to retain to his eminence in the aquirement and use of knowledge as imparted by hard study and close application. February 27, 1859, he was united in marriage to Miss Susanna Shuman, daughter of the late Samuel Shuman. She with the following children, survives him; Samuel and John, of Washington, D.C.; ex-District Attorney Luke Baker, of New Bloomfield; Mark T. of Galion, Ohio; Mrs. H.J. Wickey, of Middletown, Pa.; Mrs. Willis Shull, of Ickesburg, and Miss Daisy, at home; Dr. J.D. Baker, of Eshcol, and Peter Baker, of Cassville, Huntingdon county, are his surviving brothers. He was a soldier of the Civil War, in which he served as First Sergeant of Company F. 104th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Funeral services were held on Friday morning at 10 o'clock, in the Lutheran church at Eshcol.
The naming of his first son "Mark Twain Baker" is fascinating but almost certainly was to honor author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, as Clemens would not publish his first story until five years after Mark Twain Baker's birth. Only if Mark himself had assumed the middle name later in life could it have been to honor the author.
The son of John Boggs & Eleanor (English) Baker, he married Susanna Bixler Shuman February 27, 1859, and fathered the children you see linked below. In 1860, he was a teacher and carpenter living with his family in Saville Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 8" tall with brown hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty in Harrisburg March 2, 1865, and mustered into federal service there March 9 as a sergeant with the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. F. He was promoted to 1st sergeant, date as yet unknown, and honorably discharged with his company August 25, 1865.
Newport News, October 18, 1900
Prof. William E. Baker, one of the oldest, ablest and most successful teachers of this county, died of heart failure Tuesday evening at 5:45 o'clock, at his home in Eshcol. Friday morning, September 28, he had a chill, but he went to his school at Eshcol and taught all day, although he was scarcely able to be on his feet. Having improved, he taught the following Monday by great effort, but was unable to leave his bed the next day. While the immediate cause of his death was heart failure, he first took sick with remittent fever and was threatened with a complication of diseases, embracing pneumonia, rheumatism, enlargement of prostate gland and bronchitis. Mr. Baker was born in Juniata Township, Perry county, in a place known as *Leggett, on April 20, 1834. He was a self-made man, with no advantage excepting a fine, penetrating mind and noble impulses. For many years he has stood at the head of the teachers profession in this county and was always an important factor in the County Institutes by reason of his intellectual superiority and genuine manhood. His pupils always found him a man worthy of emulation, although it was probably the fortune of but few of them to retain to his eminence in the aquirement and use of knowledge as imparted by hard study and close application. February 27, 1859, he was united in marriage to Miss Susanna Shuman, daughter of the late Samuel Shuman. She with the following children, survives him; Samuel and John, of Washington, D.C.; ex-District Attorney Luke Baker, of New Bloomfield; Mark T. of Galion, Ohio; Mrs. H.J. Wickey, of Middletown, Pa.; Mrs. Willis Shull, of Ickesburg, and Miss Daisy, at home; Dr. J.D. Baker, of Eshcol, and Peter Baker, of Cassville, Huntingdon county, are his surviving brothers. He was a soldier of the Civil War, in which he served as First Sergeant of Company F. 104th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Funeral services were held on Friday morning at 10 o'clock, in the Lutheran church at Eshcol.
The naming of his first son "Mark Twain Baker" is fascinating but almost certainly was to honor author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, as Clemens would not publish his first story until five years after Mark Twain Baker's birth. Only if Mark himself had assumed the middle name later in life could it have been to honor the author.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty in Harrisburg March 2, 1865, and mustered into federal service there March 9 as a sergeant with the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. F. He was promoted to 1st sergeant, date as yet unknown, and honorably discharged with his company August 25, 1865.
Newport News, October 18, 1900
Prof. William E. Baker, one of the oldest, ablest and most successful teachers of this county, died of heart failure Tuesday evening at 5:45 o'clock, at his home in Eshcol. Friday morning, September 28, he had a chill, but he went to his school at Eshcol and taught all day, although he was scarcely able to be on his feet. Having improved, he taught the following Monday by great effort, but was unable to leave his bed the next day. While the immediate cause of his death was heart failure, he first took sick with remittent fever and was threatened with a complication of diseases, embracing pneumonia, rheumatism, enlargement of prostate gland and bronchitis. Mr. Baker was born in Juniata Township, Perry county, in a place known as *Leggett, on April 20, 1834. He was a self-made man, with no advantage excepting a fine, penetrating mind and noble impulses. For many years he has stood at the head of the teachers profession in this county and was always an important factor in the County Institutes by reason of his intellectual superiority and genuine manhood. His pupils always found him a man worthy of emulation, although it was probably the fortune of but few of them to retain to his eminence in the aquirement and use of knowledge as imparted by hard study and close application. February 27, 1859, he was united in marriage to Miss Susanna Shuman, daughter of the late Samuel Shuman. She with the following children, survives him; Samuel and John, of Washington, D.C.; ex-District Attorney Luke Baker, of New Bloomfield; Mark T. of Galion, Ohio; Mrs. H.J. Wickey, of Middletown, Pa.; Mrs. Willis Shull, of Ickesburg, and Miss Daisy, at home; Dr. J.D. Baker, of Eshcol, and Peter Baker, of Cassville, Huntingdon county, are his surviving brothers. He was a soldier of the Civil War, in which he served as First Sergeant of Company F. 104th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Funeral services were held on Friday morning at 10 o'clock, in the Lutheran church at Eshcol.
The naming of his first son "Mark Twain Baker" is fascinating but almost certainly was to honor author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, as Clemens would not publish his first story until five years after Mark Twain Baker's birth. Only if Mark himself had assumed the middle name later in life could it have been to honor the author.
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