Biographical Sketch of Joseph C. Baker, Johnson County, Missouri
Jefferson Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

JOSEPH C. BAKER,

P.O. Windsor, is among the industrious and successful farmers of
Jefferson township.  He was born in the state of Baden, Germany,
November 2, 1836, and educated in the schools of that country.  He
embarked for America at about the age of nineteen, and landed in the
United States in 1855.  He worked on a farm about three years, in
Illinois, and then went to Louisiana, where he was engaged in cotton
raising for about twelve years.  When the war broke out he took the side
of the south, and served three years in the Confederate army under Gen.
Hindman.  In the fall of 1863 he was captured by Gen. Sherman, and soon
afterwards took the oath to be henceforth true to the Union, which he
has observed ever since.  In politics, although quite liberal, he votes
with the Republicans.  In the spring of 1864, in the state of Illinois,
he was married to Miss Johanna Oalhas, and settled here in 1871, in
section 7, township 44, range 24, and owns 355 acres of beautiful
rolling agricultural land.  He has 100 acres of fine blue-grass pasture.
He is one of the most successful cattle feeders of the township.  This
year (1881) he has sixty-one acres in wheat, which yielded 1,020
bushels, which he sold at $1.35 per bushel, bringing $1,377.  His family
consists of four boys and two girls: Charles, Joseph, William, Frank,
Anna and Rosa.  He resides in Valley Grove school district number one.
He owns an excellent farm, midway between the High Point of Tebo and
Clear Fork.  His farm is handsomely situated, and very suitable for
stock raising and agricultural purposes.  He has plenty of stock water
during the dryest season.  Mr.  Baker is an industrious, hard working
farmer.  Although he cares for every cent that is his own, he is quite
liberal in all public enterprises that tend to improve and better the
country.

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