J. C. Baker, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 297-298 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				J. C. BAKER, M. D.  

	The year 1906 witnessed the arrival of Dr. J. C. Baker in Ramona, 
where he has since continuously engaged in the practice of his 
profession, winning a gratifying measure of success. Iowa claims him as 
a native son, his birth having occurred in Rockford on the 26th of 
September, 1878, his parents being George H. and Mary E. (Cutler) 
Baker. The father has devoted his life to farming and merchandising and 
he and his wife now make ,their home in Minnesota. They are members of 
old-time pioneer families of eastern South Dakota, arriving in this 
state in 1882. They settled first at Mitchell, the father securing a 
homestead claim there, and later went to Woonsocket, where he filed on 
a tree claim. With the development of his section of the state he has 
been closely identified and his work has been an element in public 
progress.  

	At the usual age Dr. Baker became a public-school pupil and, 
passing through consecutive grades, was at length graduated from the 
high school of Madison, South Dakota. In the period of early manhood he 
mentally reviewed the business situation, studying the various avenues 
open for activity, and at length reached the conclusion that he 
preferred medical practice as a life work. Accordingly, he entered upon 
a course of study in the Lincoln Medical College at Lincoln, Nebraska, 
and there won his professional degree upon graduation with the class of 
1906. He put his theoretical knowledge to the practical test by a 
year's service in the city hospital and in the Lincoln Hospital, 
gaining thereby the broad knowledge and experience that come so readily 
in no other way. Removing to Ramona, he there entered upon the private 
practice of his profession and in the eight years which have since come 
and gone has been very successful, becoming well established as an able 
physician and surgeon, careful in the diagnosis of his cases and 
skillful in administering both medical and surgical aid. He is likewise 
a stockholder in the Electric light Company of Ramona and, moreover, is 
deeply interested in horticulture, which he makes a source of 
recreation. 

	On the 26th of January, 1910, Dr. Baker was united in marriage to 
Mrs. Edith Louise Corliss. They are members of the Episcopal church and 
Dr. Baker holds to the principles of the socialist party. He has 
attained high rank in Masonry, belonging to the lodge, to the 
consistory at Yankton and to the Mystic Shrine at Sioux Falls. He also 
has membership ill the local organization of Odd Fellows and in his 
life he exemplifies the teachings of these organizations, which are 
based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of man. Advancement has 
ever been his watchword and has been manifest in all of his deeds. In 
his profession he has made progress through his wide reading and 
research, keeping in touch with the advanced thought and scientific 
investigations of the day.