Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Baker, Frank 1860 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  FRANK BAKER is a Summit Lake township farmer who resides only a short distance

southwest from Reading. He owns 200 acres of land in sections 26 and 35 and has

made his home there since 1902. Mr. Baker was born near Adrian, Mich., on April

12, 1860, and descends from an old New York state family, the American branch of

which was founded by an Englishman who came in colonial days. Levi Baker, a

farmer, was the father of our subject. He was born near Adrian, Mich., July 30,

1837, and died Aug. 14, 1901. Our subject's mother was Sophronia E. (Mason)

Baker, who was born near Adrian June 17, 1840, and who died in 1892.



  In the place of his birth Frank Baker lived until fourteen years of age. Then

he moved with his parents to Butler county, Iowa, and that was his home until

his arrival in Nobles county. During the greater part" of his residence, there

he engaged in farming. One year he spent working at the printer's trade. He came

to Nobles county in 1902, bought his farm, and has been engaged in farming there

since. He was one of the organizers of the Reading Mutual Telephone company and

was its first president, serving in that capacity three years.



  Mr. Baker was married Feb. 21, 1884, at Allison, Butler county, Iowa, to Annie

E. Dopking, a native of Monroe county, Wis., and a daughter of George M. and

Abagail (Jarvis) Dopking. To them has been bom one child, named Lulu.



  Mr. Baker is a member of the Presbyterian church of Reading and of Fraternity

Lodge No. 101, A. F. & A. M., Worthington. He served on the Summit Lake board of

supervisors four years and during the last year of his service was chairman of

the board.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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