Edgar Jr., more often known as Bake, the son of Edgar E. Baker, Sr. and Anna Belle Byrd Baker, was born and raised in Visalia, Tulare Co., CA. He graduated from Visalia HS where he was on the football team. Attended UCLA undergraduate, graduate school at U of CA, Berkeley, earning PhD in Microbiology. His first post-graduate work was at the Hooper Foundation (a Stanford research unit at San Francisco) with Dr.K.F. Meyer, where he worked on plague vaccine during WWII. In 1946 he accepted a position at Rockefeller Institute (now University) in Manhattan, NY for 3 years where he was able to work side by side with eminent microbiologists of the time. In 1947 he was offered a full professorship position at Boston University School of Medicine in September, 1949, becoming chairman of Department. of Microbiology several years later. Bake remained in this position until his retirement in 1979. Areas of early interest included plague (vaccine) and salmonella; later immuno-microbiology.
He married Marian Reed Logan, a nurse, 30 Sep 1938 in Carson City, NV. They lived in Berkeley, CA until 1946 when they moved to Manhattan until 1949 when they moved to Newton, MA. In 1962 they relocated to Rockport, MA becoming avid ocean sailors. Edgar died peacefully at home on March 1, 1992. His ashes were scattered over the Atlantic Ocean just outside Sandy Bay, Rockport, Massachusetts.
He married Marian Reed Logan, a nurse, 30 Sep 1938 in Carson City, NV. They lived in Berkeley, CA until 1946 when they moved to Manhattan until 1949 when they moved to Newton, MA. In 1962 they relocated to Rockport, MA becoming avid ocean sailors. Edgar died peacefully at home on March 1, 1992. His ashes were scattered over the Atlantic Ocean just outside Sandy Bay, Rockport, Massachusetts.
Edgar Jr., more often known as Bake, the son of Edgar E. Baker, Sr. and Anna Belle Byrd Baker, was born and raised in Visalia, Tulare Co., CA. He graduated from Visalia HS where he was on the football team. Attended UCLA undergraduate, graduate school at U of CA, Berkeley, earning PhD in Microbiology. His first post-graduate work was at the Hooper Foundation (a Stanford research unit at San Francisco) with Dr.K.F. Meyer, where he worked on plague vaccine during WWII. In 1946 he accepted a position at Rockefeller Institute (now University) in Manhattan, NY for 3 years where he was able to work side by side with eminent microbiologists of the time. In 1947 he was offered a full professorship position at Boston University School of Medicine in September, 1949, becoming chairman of Department. of Microbiology several years later. Bake remained in this position until his retirement in 1979. Areas of early interest included plague (vaccine) and salmonella; later immuno-microbiology.
He married Marian Reed Logan, a nurse, 30 Sep 1938 in Carson City, NV. They lived in Berkeley, CA until 1946 when they moved to Manhattan until 1949 when they moved to Newton, MA. In 1962 they relocated to Rockport, MA becoming avid ocean sailors. Edgar died peacefully at home on March 1, 1992. His ashes were scattered over the Atlantic Ocean just outside Sandy Bay, Rockport, Massachusetts.
He married Marian Reed Logan, a nurse, 30 Sep 1938 in Carson City, NV. They lived in Berkeley, CA until 1946 when they moved to Manhattan until 1949 when they moved to Newton, MA. In 1962 they relocated to Rockport, MA becoming avid ocean sailors. Edgar died peacefully at home on March 1, 1992. His ashes were scattered over the Atlantic Ocean just outside Sandy Bay, Rockport, Massachusetts.
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