A. L. BAKER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 654 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

A. L. BAKER, farmer, Sec. 34 P. O. Union Grove; born in Putnam Co., N.
Y., town of Southeast, April 27, 1827, and came to Wisconsin with his
parents in 1847; in 1849 settled on eighty acres in Yorkville, and
through hard work and economy now has 160 acres under good cultivation.
Married Mary Dorning, daughter of Jonathan Dorning, in 1851; have had
seven children- Jonathan born Oct. 16, 1851, Joseph, Oct. 30, 1853;
Lewis, June 13, 1857; Augusta, May 8, 1862; Samuel: Aug. 6, 1864;
Francis, born July 24, 1871, and died Sept. 24, 1871; Minnie, born Sept.
81 1867. Mrs. Baker died Jan. 21, 1879. Jonathan, who was a member of a
Missouri regiment during the war, and was wounded, died from the effects
of this wound March 24, 1879. Mary Agnes, daughter of A. L. Baker, died
April 20, 1879. Mr. Baker seems to have been allotted more than his
share of sorrow.