BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Cyrus C. Baker; Batavia, Genesee co., NY
surname: Baker, Stokes, Pratt

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Author: Stafford E. North. Our County and Its People, A Descriptive and
Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Boston History Company
Publishers, page 92

The subject of this sketch, Dr. Cyrus C. Baker, was born in Roxbury, Delaware 
county, N.Y., January 28, 1819.   Soon after arriving at his majority he began 
the study of medicine with his brother, Dr. John F. Baker, a homeopathic 
physician at Lebanon, Madison county, N.Y., where he finished his studies and 
practiced until 1850, when he, together with his brother, removed to Batavia.  

Shortly after his arrival he went to Albion, Orleans county, N.Y., and 
practiced until 1863, when he returned to Batavia, where he practiced his 
profession until his death from heart disease, which occurred quite suddenly
on the morning of July 17, 1887, he having been on the street only a few hours 
before.   The doctor was one of a family of physicians, two of his brothers 
being physicians.   He was a very conscientious, upright and quiet man, a man 
who never displayed his good deeds for the world to see, or talked about them 
for the world to hear.   As a friend remarked, "If he could not speak well of
a person, he never spoke ill of him."   He was known by his deeds, and his 
pleasant smile and cheery words were almost as healing as his medicines.   He 
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and for many years a trustee of 
the church in this village, and at the time of his death was town and county 
physician.   He left four children by his first wife:  Frederick and Frank 
(both since deceased), Hattie and Mrs. John W. Pratt of Batavia.   His first 
wife's name was Cyrinthea Stokes.   By his last wife (since deceased), a
sister of the former companion, he left one daughter, Lulu M.   At his death
he left three brothers and two sisters, all having died since.