Contra Costa-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Baker, Josiah R. 1853 - 
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Author: W. A. & Slocum & Co. (1882)

JOSIAH R. BAKER.—The subject of this sketch was born in Salt Lake city, Utah,
April 20, 1853. When quite young he moved to Ogden, and was there educated in
the common schools of that city, where he was afterwards employed as
telegraph-operator for the Utah Central Railroad. October 1, 1870, he started on
horse-back, driving a drove of cattle, to cross the mountains to California, and
first located on Sherman Island, in Sacramento county, where he resided about
one year, and then moved to this county, located in Antioch, and was employed as
telegraph-operator and post-office clerk, a position which he held until April
11, 1878, when he was appointed postmaster at Antioch, a position which he now
holds, and is also agent for Wells, Fargo & Co., and manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Company. Was united in marriage April 15, 1879, to Miss Alice E.
Wills, a native of Illinois; by this union they have one child, Ina E.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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