William L. Baker Biography

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BAKER, WILLIAM L., was born in Madison county, N. Y., April 9, 1860; 
was educated in the public and normal schools, and was graduated from 
the Rochester University, Rochester, N. Y., in 1885; came to Sioux 
Falls in the fall of 1885, spent the winter in Chicago, returned the 
following spring, and was employed for one year and a half in the 
German Loan & Trust Company's office; from October, 1887, until 
January, 1889, was cashier of the First National Bank of Parker, in 
Turner county; in January, 1889, became cashier of the Minnehaha 
National Bank of Sioux Falls, which position he still holds. Mr. Baker 
is a social gentleman and has a large circle of friends. He belongs to 
the Masonic orders in the city, and has been honored with official 
positions by the bodies to which he belongs. He is a kind, obliging 
neighbor, and an esteemed citizen.