BIOGRAPHIES:  Edwin O. BAKER, M.D., Menomonie, Dunn County, WI

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EDWIN O. BAKER, M.D., Menomonie.  Was born in Oneida, Co., N.Y. in 
1831.  He began the study of medicine at Lee Center, Oneida Co., in 1852, 
with Dr. Henry N. Porter, of that place.  He graduated at Castleman Medical
College, Vt., in 1856.  Removed to Durand in the summer of 1858.  Was the 
first physician of Pepin County.  In 1862, he joined the 30th Reg., Wis. 
V.I., as assistant surgeon.  During the last year of the war, he had charge
of the hospital at Frankfort, Ky.  He returned to Durand at the close of 
the war, and resumed practice, where he remained till 1875, when he located
at Lake City, Minn.  He came to Menomonie in 1878.  He has been twice 
married.  He has one son by first marriage  Edwin J., a practicing 
physician at Wilson, St. Croix Co.  Has one son by second marriage, Norman 
H. 


-- From "History of Northern Wisconsin, An Account of Its Settlement, Growth,
Development and Resources; an Extensive Sketch of its Counties, Cities, 
Towns and Villages." Volume 1.  Chicago: the Western Historical Company, 
A.T. Andreas, Proprietor, 1881, page 283