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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  ROBERT PERRY BAKER, Mayor of Decatur, was born in Jersey Shore, Lycoming
County, Pa., December 24, 1837, of Scotch-Irish parentage; received an academic
education in the West Branch High School; learned the printing trade under his
father, and assisted in the  publication of the organ of that county.

  In January, 1859, he came South, and aided in the publication of the Decatur
Times, assisted by Joe W. Furey. In 1861 he published The Constitution at
Tuscumbia, Ala. In 1862 he enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Alabama Regiment, C S.
A., and served gallantly at the battles of Corinth, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg.
In 1864 he returned to Pennsylvania and remained there until the fall of 1865,
when he returned to Decatur. In 1872 he was appointed Southern Claims
Commissioner by the Treasury Department, at Washington. In 1875 he was appointed
by President U. S. Grant United States Marshal for the Northern District of
Alabama, where he served four years, making many friends and few enemies by his
rigid enforcement of the revenue laws. In 1880 he purchased the McCartney Hotel
property, and added greatly to its beauty by remodeling the buildings and yards.
In 1886 he was elected Mayor of Decatur, announcing. as his platform, "free
public schools, internal improvements and sanitary regulations," thus taking an
almost foremost step in Decatur's present boom.

  He is a member of Decatur Chapter. No. 38, R. A. M.; Rising Sun Lodge, No. 29,
A. F. & A. M.; K. of P., and A. O. U. W, in all of which orders he has received
the highest honors and held the highest offices. He is also a member of the
Stock Fxchange, etc.

  Mr. Baker is a man of conservative views, social characteristics and pleasant
manners. He has filled his position as chief officer of the city in an admirable
manner and gives general satisfaction. All that he committed himself to in the
canvass has been faithfully observed in his administration of the city's
government, and his administration has been a success.

  Robert P. Baker was married June 5, 1867, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Michael
and Nancy (Davis) Sensabangh, who came to Decatur in 1818. They have two sons
and three daughters: Robert S., Mary E., Thomas E., Margaret D., and Mattie E.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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