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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Historical and Biographical Record
of
Douglas Co., Illinois
Compiled by John Gresham, U. S. A.
June, 1900
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S. H. BAKER
is classed among the successful and enterprising young business men
of Arthur. He is a member of the well known grain firm of
Baker & Cahill (see sketch of latter on another page), which
partnership was formed Feb. 1, 1895.
Mr. Baker was born on a farm in Juniata county,
Penn., Apr. 12, 1862, and remained on the farm, receiving the
advantages of the common schools until he had arrived at the age of
fifteen years, when he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and filled the positions of telegraph operator and
ticket clerk at different points on the middle division, on the main
line between Harrisburg and Altoona. In 1880 he came west and
located in Illinois, remaining one year, when he returned to
Pennsylvania and re-entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in the capacity of telegraph operator and ticket clerk on
the Schuylkill division at Pottstown, Montgomery county. In
1888 he came back to this state and located in Piatt county, and was
station agent at Milmine, on the Wabash system, continuing there up
till 1892. In that year he changed to the employ of the C. &
E. I. Railroad Company and was their station agent at Arthur up to
his going into the grain business in 1895.
In 1885 Mr. Baker was united in marriage to
Miss Alice Dobson, a daughter of Robinson Dobson,
of Milmine. To their marriage have been born
three children: Florence and S. H. Baker, Jr.,
living and Jesse, dead.
S. H. Baker comes of sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch
ancestry, and is a son of Jesse and Susan (Zeiders) Baker.
The father was born in Montgomery county, near Philadelphia; the
mother in Perry county, near Liverpool, Pennsylvania. His
grandfather's were Peter Baker and Henry Zeiders, who
were members of old and respectable families of the Keystone state.
The firm of Baker & Cahill, who carry on
business for themselves as dealers in grain, coal, seeds and mill
feed, do an annual business of about fifty-one thousand dollars.
Mr. Baker is a member and secretary of Arthur lodge No. 825.
Free and Accepted Masons, and is also an active member of one of the
oldest trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, which was
organized in 1894. He has attained his present position in the
business world by industry and close attention to the details of his
every day's work; is public spirited and in favor of all
improvements calculated to benefit the community in which he
resides.
Source: Historical and Biographical Record
of Douglas Co., Illinois -
Compiled by John Gresham, U. S. A.
June, 1900 - Page 141 |
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