Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Baker, John 1819 - 
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Author: W. A. & Slocum & Co. (1882)

JOHN BAKER.—Was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1819. When
three years of age, his parents moved to Stark county, Ohio, where John attended
the common schools, and afterwards learned the trade of carpenter, which he
followed while there residing until 1845, in which year he moved to Cass county,
Michigan, and there pursued his trade, and, at the same time, carried on a farm
for three years. He then continued his calling, in several different places,
until February 28, 1853, when he started, in company with a brother-in-law, with
ox-teams, to cross the plains to California, and arrived in Contra Costa county
September 25th, of the same year. In the Fall of 1855, Mr. Baker located on his
present well-improved farm of one hundred and eighty acres, one-half mile east
of the town of Walnut Creek, where he is now engaged in general farming and
stock-raising. The subject of this sketch was married in Cass county, Michigan,
June 4, 1848, to Miss Martha Ann Glass, a native of Harrison, Jefferson county,
Ohio; by this union they have four children, Almira J., Frank P., John C., and
Mary P.

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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