Breckinridge-Hancock County KyArchives Biographies.....Baker, J.T. June 21, 1843 - unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 March 16, 2005, 6:41 am Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1886 J. T. BAKER, M. D., was born June 21, 1843, in Hancock County, Ky., and is the son of G. C. P. and Alice (Jolly) Baker, natives of Logan and Hancock Counties, respectively. The ancestors of Dr. Baker, on the father's side, were from Pennsylvania, and lineal descendants of William Penn, founder of the city of Philadelphia. The grandfather, William P. Baker, left his native State as early as the year 1812, immigrating to Russellville, Logan Co., Ky., where he engaged in the mercantile business, which he carried on very successfully for a number of years, and later in life followed farming, in which he was also successful, accumulating a comfortable fortune. He died at his home near Mud River, Logan County, about the year 1842 or 1843. The Doctor's maternal grandfather, Samuel Jolly, was a native of Virginia, and one of the original settlers of Hardinsburg, coming to Breckinridge County with William Hardin in the year 1781 (see sketch of the Jolly family). He was a successful farmer, in good circumstances, and at the time of his death, which occurred when subject was a small boy, was one of the leading citizens of the county. His wife, Agnes (Poo.l) Jolly, was born in Virginia, and died in Hancock County, Ky., about 1861 or 1862, at an advanced age. G. C. P. Baker, the Doctor's father, was born in Logan County, Ky., on January 10, 1811; came to Breckinridge County as early as 1825 or 1830, and is still living near Hardinsburg. His wife, Alice Baker, was born in Breckinridge County July 24, 1814, and is also living at the present time (1886). The children of Mr. and Mrs. Baker were as follows: W. P., Samuel J., Sarah H., George C. P., Mary C., Joseph T., Mary A., Thomas T. V. T., Margaret F and James N. Our subject was reared to agricultural pursuits, and received a good English education in the country school, which he attended at intervals until his twentieth or twenty-first year, when he began the study of medicine at the village of Utility, Hancock County, with Dr. Albert Griffin, under whose instruction he continued for a period of three years. At the end of that time, in 1864, he entered the Louisville University, which he attended one session, and the following year found him actively engaged in the practice of his profession at the village of Rosine, Ohio County, where he remained for four years. He next located at Rocky Hill Station, in Edmonson County, remaining there until 1875, at which time he again entered the Louisville University, graduating from the same in the class of 1876-77. For five years after completing his course the Doctor practiced at Rocky Hill Station, and at the end of that time came to Hardinsburg, where he has since resided. Dr. Baker has been an enthusiastic student of the healing art, and is exceptionally well versed in all the departments of that most intricate profession. As a practioner [sic] he has been uniformly successful, while as an intelligent citizen he stands high in the estimation of the community. The Doctor was married, December 14, 1873, in Edmonson County, to Emily Woolsey, daughter of Sanford and Ann (Smith) Woolsey, by whom he has three children: George H., Alice and Maggie. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, with which he has been identified for twenty two years, and while not an active politician, votes with the Democratic party. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/bios/baker31bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/kyfiles/