Son of shoe-merchant, town clerk and state legislator, George Ellis Baker and Eveline Stevens, and educated at Willamsburg School in Dedham, Mass. and at Seward University in Florida, NY. At the age of 16 was a New York State Bank clerk and 7 years later he invested $3,000 and became an original shareholder of the First National Bank of New York (which is now Citibank). He enlisted in the 18th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers at the start of the Civil War and rose to the rank of first lieutenant and adjutant. He became the New York State Bank president in 1877 being its largest shareholder. He was greatly successful in steel, utilities, and rubber industries. He served on the boards of over 40 corporations. He was associated with the house of Morgan and assisted in financing of James J. Hill in building his railroad empire and assisted him in the fight to control the Northern Pacific RR. His philanthropic bequests was many, notably were his $6 million donation to found and support the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, $2 million for the Baker Library at Dartmouth college and $1,000,000 to the Red Cross During World War I. His fortune was calculated at over $110 million in 1925. At his death thousands of messages of condolence came, among the senders were President Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, and many leaders of finance, industry and business.
He married Florence Tucker Baker, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Baker and Sophronia J. Whitney in 1869 and became the father of Evelyn Baker (1870-1936) married Howard Blight St. George; Florence Bellows Baker (1876-1936) married William Goadby Lowe; and George Fisher Baker, Jr. (1878-1937) married Edith Brevoort Kane.
He married Florence Tucker Baker, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Baker and Sophronia J. Whitney in 1869 and became the father of Evelyn Baker (1870-1936) married Howard Blight St. George; Florence Bellows Baker (1876-1936) married William Goadby Lowe; and George Fisher Baker, Jr. (1878-1937) married Edith Brevoort Kane.
Son of shoe-merchant, town clerk and state legislator, George Ellis Baker and Eveline Stevens, and educated at Willamsburg School in Dedham, Mass. and at Seward University in Florida, NY. At the age of 16 was a New York State Bank clerk and 7 years later he invested $3,000 and became an original shareholder of the First National Bank of New York (which is now Citibank). He enlisted in the 18th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers at the start of the Civil War and rose to the rank of first lieutenant and adjutant. He became the New York State Bank president in 1877 being its largest shareholder. He was greatly successful in steel, utilities, and rubber industries. He served on the boards of over 40 corporations. He was associated with the house of Morgan and assisted in financing of James J. Hill in building his railroad empire and assisted him in the fight to control the Northern Pacific RR. His philanthropic bequests was many, notably were his $6 million donation to found and support the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, $2 million for the Baker Library at Dartmouth college and $1,000,000 to the Red Cross During World War I. His fortune was calculated at over $110 million in 1925. At his death thousands of messages of condolence came, among the senders were President Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, and many leaders of finance, industry and business.
He married Florence Tucker Baker, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Baker and Sophronia J. Whitney in 1869 and became the father of Evelyn Baker (1870-1936) married Howard Blight St. George; Florence Bellows Baker (1876-1936) married William Goadby Lowe; and George Fisher Baker, Jr. (1878-1937) married Edith Brevoort Kane.
He married Florence Tucker Baker, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Baker and Sophronia J. Whitney in 1869 and became the father of Evelyn Baker (1870-1936) married Howard Blight St. George; Florence Bellows Baker (1876-1936) married William Goadby Lowe; and George Fisher Baker, Jr. (1878-1937) married Edith Brevoort Kane.
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