Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Baker, W. E. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   W. E. Baker, attorney, Veedersburg, was born in 1831, near Harper's Ferry,
Maryland. In September, 1842, he came with his parents and located in Fountain
county. He served an apprenticeship of three years at milling. In 1861 he
enlisted as a private in the United States service. Afterward he was elected
second lieutenant in Co. H, 2d N. Y. Cav., which office he resigned, and a
second time enlisted in Co. C, 154th Ind. Vols., and was discharged at the close
of the war. Returning home he entered into the study of law, in 1870, at
Covington; was admitted to the bar in Fountain county common pleas court. The
subject of this sketch lives in Veedersburg. As an attorney he is considered a
man of proficiency, and has a good practice. In politics he is a loyal democrat,
and was heard to remark that should the old flag be dishonored, the first thing
he would do would be to raise a company to defend that starry emblem of liberty
and prosperity.

Additional Comments:

Van Buren Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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