William Henry Baker. Winn Parish, Louisiana Contributed by Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report.This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. William Henry Baker Is the name of father and son. The elder Baker lives in Houston, Texas where he reared his family and where our subject was brought up. His father was a stock man and in 1872 married Miss Nannie E. Mays. Mr. Baker still lives but his wife died March 5, 1900. The younger Baker was born in Houston, Texas, Jan. 15, 1874, was educated in the Texas public schools and eleven years ago became a contractor and builder, and seven years since he came to Louisiana is one of the popular and useful contractors of Winnfield, and easily one of our captains of industry. "Tis said that he can do more work with smaller force in a given time than any man in this country. Honest and square, with pluck and force. We would as _______ have Mr. Baker do us a job in his line as any man living. Dec. 22, 1904, he married Miss Olive Wallace, a daughter of Judge J. T. Wallace. They have an excellent home on Main Street and one child to brighten it. Mr. Baker is a Woodman, and has acquired a neat property in the city. When asked about the development of Winn Parish and north Louisiana he laconically replied, "No section better." He thinks however we must have good roads and then intensive farming and truck growing will follow. His motto: "Fair dealings in business and to do my part in my country's advancement." (This article was copied from The Guardian newspaper, Vol. XXVII, No. 8-9, published September-October, 1907 at Winnfield, LA., and on file at the Watson Memorial Library, Cammie Henry Archives, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA., and submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, LA.)