San Antonio Light
December 11, 1907
Columbus, Tex., Dec. 11 -
Ben M. Baker, who for the past half century had been editor of the Colorado Citizen, is dead at his home here of heart failure. Mr. Baker was born in Louisiana March 12, 1837, and came to Texas in his infancy. He learned the printer's trade when a boy in San Antonio and founded the Colorado Citizen in 1857, together with his brothers, James and Hicks, both of whom have been dead many years. Mr. Baker enlisted in company B, Fifth Texas (Hood's brigade) in 1861, and served with distinction in that command until the close of the war, participating in all of the hard fought battles of the Virginia campaign. Returning from the war he again assumed the editorial work on the Citizen. In 1874 he was married to Miss Jennie Cunningham, who survives him, together with their three children, Drew C. Baker, Miss Ada Baker and Mrs. Bennie Baker Stine, all of whom are now here. Mr. Baker had for many years been one of the most prominent newspaper men in the state, and his many good deeds and charitable acts cause him to be universally mourned.
December 11, 1907
Columbus, Tex., Dec. 11 -
Ben M. Baker, who for the past half century had been editor of the Colorado Citizen, is dead at his home here of heart failure. Mr. Baker was born in Louisiana March 12, 1837, and came to Texas in his infancy. He learned the printer's trade when a boy in San Antonio and founded the Colorado Citizen in 1857, together with his brothers, James and Hicks, both of whom have been dead many years. Mr. Baker enlisted in company B, Fifth Texas (Hood's brigade) in 1861, and served with distinction in that command until the close of the war, participating in all of the hard fought battles of the Virginia campaign. Returning from the war he again assumed the editorial work on the Citizen. In 1874 he was married to Miss Jennie Cunningham, who survives him, together with their three children, Drew C. Baker, Miss Ada Baker and Mrs. Bennie Baker Stine, all of whom are now here. Mr. Baker had for many years been one of the most prominent newspaper men in the state, and his many good deeds and charitable acts cause him to be universally mourned.
San Antonio Light
December 11, 1907
Columbus, Tex., Dec. 11 -
Ben M. Baker, who for the past half century had been editor of the Colorado Citizen, is dead at his home here of heart failure. Mr. Baker was born in Louisiana March 12, 1837, and came to Texas in his infancy. He learned the printer's trade when a boy in San Antonio and founded the Colorado Citizen in 1857, together with his brothers, James and Hicks, both of whom have been dead many years. Mr. Baker enlisted in company B, Fifth Texas (Hood's brigade) in 1861, and served with distinction in that command until the close of the war, participating in all of the hard fought battles of the Virginia campaign. Returning from the war he again assumed the editorial work on the Citizen. In 1874 he was married to Miss Jennie Cunningham, who survives him, together with their three children, Drew C. Baker, Miss Ada Baker and Mrs. Bennie Baker Stine, all of whom are now here. Mr. Baker had for many years been one of the most prominent newspaper men in the state, and his many good deeds and charitable acts cause him to be universally mourned.
December 11, 1907
Columbus, Tex., Dec. 11 -
Ben M. Baker, who for the past half century had been editor of the Colorado Citizen, is dead at his home here of heart failure. Mr. Baker was born in Louisiana March 12, 1837, and came to Texas in his infancy. He learned the printer's trade when a boy in San Antonio and founded the Colorado Citizen in 1857, together with his brothers, James and Hicks, both of whom have been dead many years. Mr. Baker enlisted in company B, Fifth Texas (Hood's brigade) in 1861, and served with distinction in that command until the close of the war, participating in all of the hard fought battles of the Virginia campaign. Returning from the war he again assumed the editorial work on the Citizen. In 1874 he was married to Miss Jennie Cunningham, who survives him, together with their three children, Drew C. Baker, Miss Ada Baker and Mrs. Bennie Baker Stine, all of whom are now here. Mr. Baker had for many years been one of the most prominent newspaper men in the state, and his many good deeds and charitable acts cause him to be universally mourned.
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