Bio of Joseph F. BAKER (b.1873), Wright Co., MN

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This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II,
Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge.
Surname Index for The HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY can be found at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/wright/wright.html
Under HISTORY.

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be some typos.


510           HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

Joseph F. Baker, Maple Lake township, county commissioner from the 
first district, was born in section 26, in the township where he 
still resides, August 7, 1873, son of Joseph and Christina (Elsenpeter) 
Baker, natives of Germany, who came to this country and located in 
Illinois, where they lived until 1867, when they came to Wright county 
and located on a farm in section 26, Maple Lake township. The father 
died there and the mother lives in Monticello. In the family there were 
six children: Mary, wife of William Bertram, of Monticello; Rose, of 
Monticello; 

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Joseph F.; Anna, wife of Robert Brett, of Buffalo township, this 
county; Josephine, wife of Ernest Holler, of International Falls, 
Minn.; and Catherine, wife of Mons Hawkins, of Monticello. Joseph 
F. Baker lost his father at the age of fourteen, and since that 
time has continued to operate the home farm of 160 acres on which 
he conducts general farming and stock raising, making a specialty 
of feeding cattle and breeding Poland-China swine. He is a Republican 
in politics, has served his town three years as assessor, and in 1908 
was elected county commissioner. He is a member of the M. W. A., of 
Maple Lake. In 1914 he erected a fine modern home. Mr. Baker was 
married, June 17, 1903, to Annastasia Veches, a native of Bohemia, 
and they have four children: Margaret Anna, Ethel Christina, Marvin 
Joseph and Earl Francis. The family faith is that of the Roman 
Catholic church.