Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Baker, D. H. January 17 1861 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. D. H. BAKER, son of Dr. N. H. and Mary J. (McAdory) Baker, was born in
Alabama, January 17, 1861. His father was a native of North Carolina, born in
Fayetteville, January 3, 1823. He lived there until he was fourteen years of
age, when his mother died, his father having died previously, leaving him with a
younger brother and two young sisters to provide for. The boy had many rich
relatives, but his independent spirit would accept no assistance from any of
them, and soon after the death of his mother, he brought the other children and
their earthly possessions, to Alabama, where the search for gold was fruitless,
but where he went bravely to work, and supported and educated himself and the
others by his own hard labor. He studied medicine under Dr. James Kelly, of
Coosa county, and took lectures at the university of New York, where he
graduated in 1849. He devoted all his life to the practice of his profession,
and died April 22, 1877. He married, in 1852, in Coosa county, where his widow
now survives, and he also spent his life. His family consisted of six children:
Kate, deceased wife of W. A. Gamble; Emma D., deceased wife of B. Z. Gamble;
Sallie A., deceased wife of W. M. Neighbors; Celia E., wife of A. S. Dean; D.
H., and Mary. The mother of these children lives on the homestead near Good
Water, Ala. Dr. N. H. Baker was a political speaker of great power, and gave
largely of his means for the prevention of the war. He was a successful business
man; at the time of his death was the owner of several thousand acres of fine
land. He was a man prominent in the state and local politics of his day, and a
Union man in his sentiment. The father of N. H. Baker was a Scotchman, who came
to America in 1798, and lived in North Carolina until his death in 1830. He was
in the war of 1812. He was a great musician, and paid his way across the ocean
by playing a flute and violin. Dr. D. H. Baker was educated primarily in the
schools of Good Water, Ala. He attended the university of Alabama, but never
graduated on account of leaving school to look after his mother, who was in
failing health, leaving college six weeks before his graduation. He read
medicine with J. B. Kelly, M. D., and graduated at Vanderbilt college in 1881,
in medicine, and located at Gadsden in 1883, where he has built up a successful
practice. He is a member of the State Medical association, and is the county
health officer. He was married in Tuskegee, Ala., March 23, 1886, to Miss Fannie
H., daughter of the late Col. R. H. Abercrombie, and they have three
children-Fannie May, Annie Eliza, and Robert Hayden. In politics Dr. Baker is a
democrat.




Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1011-1012
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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