BIO:  BAKER, R. Tarvin, Campbell Co., KY
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Subject: BIO: BAKER, R. Tarvin, Campbell Co., KY
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Campbell Co.

R. TARVIN BAKER, was born on the Licking River, September 13, 1816. His
father, Samuel Baker, a native of Westmoreland County, Penn., being a
graduate of Gettysburg College; he immigrated to Kentucky in 1800, where
he engaged in teaching, and was also a practical engineer and surveyor;
his father was John Baker, a native of Ireland, and his wife, the
mother of our subject, was a daughter of John and Jane Armstrong, who
were Scotch people.  R. Tarvin Baker was the fifth in a family of
thirteen children, and was reared on the farm. When quite young, his
father being sheriff of Campbell County, he became deputy sheriff and
served several years. In the meantime he began the study of law, and
attended the Cincinnati Law School, where he graduated March 5, 1844.
He them moved to Illinois, and became the law partner of M. K. Browning,
but remained only six months, however when he returned to Campbell
County, from which county he was elected to the Legislature in 1850.
Although he has been in public life nearly thirty years, filling in at
one time, during a war exigency, in the term of Gov. McGoffin, the
office of governor of Kentucky for a short time. His first marriage
was Miss Sarah Bell, daughter of Col. Benjamin D. Bell of Campbell
County; she lived but two years and eight months, and February 4, 1854,
Mr. Baker married Mary J. Orr, daughter of Dr. John Orr, of Alexandria,
and three sons and two daughters have blessed their union: William B.,
Courtland T., John S. (deceased), Sarah B. and Maggie O.  William B.
and Courtland are both attorneys.

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