Honolulu-Maui County HI Archives Biographies.....Baker, Leroy Perry December 29, 1878 - 
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Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV
Author: George F. Nellist (editor)

 Baker, Leroy Perry: Manager Jos. Schwartz, Ltd., Wholesale Jewelers.

     Born Dec. 29, 1878. Stony Ridge. Ohio, son of Abram P. and Malura L.
(Conrad) Baker; married Flora B. Wadman, Delaware, Ohio, Sept. 5. 1906, son,
Leroy P., Jr., member Honolulu Lodge No. 409, F and A. M., (Past Master).

     Educated in the public and high schools of Preston, Md., and later
attending St. John's College, Annapolis, until 1902. Mr. Baker in 1903 entered a
steel mill as clerk, later became a clerk for the Western Union Telegraph Co.,
and was also employed as clerk in the office of the Wheeling News and in the
postoffice at. Wheeling, W. Va. From 1906 to 1909 he worked as a railway and
mail clerk in West Virginia and Arizona, and until 1913 was a clerk in the
offices of a copper company in Clifton, Arizona.

     In 1913 he entered the employ of a gas floor furnace company at Glendale,
Cal., leaving there in 1915 to come to Hawaii. His first position in the Islands
was that of bookkeeper at the Honolua ranch, Maui. In 1916 he became business
assistant to the doctor in charge of the Kula Sanitarium. In 1917 he entered the
employ of Jos. Schwartz, Ltd., Honolulu wholesale jewelers, as bookkeeper, and
since June, 1919, has been manager.


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