Sketches of prominent citizens of 1876 : with a few of the pioneers of the city and county who have passed away . with many of the celebrities and leading men of theState, of both political parties. THOMAS BAKER. Mr. Baker is a native of the Buckeye State, and was born in Butlercounty, in June, 1822, and with his fathers family removed to Tippe-canoe county, Indiana, in the fall of 1827, his fathers being the fifth fam-ily that settled in the immediate neighborhood of where the thrivinglittle village of Dayton is situated. The families that were there whenMr. Baker arrived were the McGeorges,
Sketches of prominent citizens of 1876 : with a few of the pioneers of the city and county who have passed away . with many of the celebrities and leading men of theState, of both political parties. THOMAS BAKER. Mr. Baker is a native of the Buckeye State, and was born in Butlercounty, in June, 1822, and with his fathers family removed to Tippe-canoe county, Indiana, in the fall of 1827, his fathers being the fifth fam-ily that settled in the immediate neighborhood of where the thrivinglittle village of Dayton is situated. The families that were there whenMr. Baker arrived were the McGeorges, Pages, Bushes, and Dicker-sons, who settled there in the order in which they are named. Theformer, Samuel McGeorge, was one of the first settlers of Indianapolis,and received a grant of six sections of land from the Miami the influence and friendship of their head chief, Richardville,this land was located in this vicinity. In the fall of 1828 the writerspent several weeks with the family of Mr. McGeorge, and then becameacquainted with the elder Baker, the father of the subject of this EauorerotauBro > i^v Indi^iupolii Lidiogrsphi Instimte
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