Julian Meredith Baker was born 1857 in Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, NC, the 2nd of 5 known surviving children (all boys) born to noted physician and Civil War veteran, Dr. Joseph Henry Baker and his wife, Susan D. Foxhall. He was a third generation physician in this noted family.
He was the paternal grandson of Dr. William Sparkman Baker and Julia Shurley/Shirley; and gr-grandson of Moses Baker (ca. 1779-aft 1850) and Elony Garrett, all of Edgecombe County. He is a direct descendant of Moses Baker (ca. 1708-1781) of Surry Co, VA who first came to Bertie County, NC ca. 1730. John Bennett Boddie in his books: "Southside Virginia Families", Vol. 1, "Virginia Historical Genealogies" and "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia" has devoted many pages to the families of Lawrence and Henry Baker and suggests that the Bakers were from Sussex and Kent, England and that they first settled in Virginia in the early seventeenth century. Lawrence Baker was granted land in Surry County, Virginia in 1650. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1666 to 1676. He died in 1681 and left his estate to his widow Elizabeth and his daughter Catherine, who was the wife of Arthur Allen. On his mother's side, Julian was the maternal grandson of William Foxhall and Sarah Dancy of Edgecombe.
Julian's mother died sometime after the birth of her last child in 1869, and his father remarried in 1874 to Ida Haywood Manly, daughter of NC Gov. Charles Manly. This marriage resulted in the birth of 2 more children.
Julian was educated at Tarboro Male Academy, Horner and Graves Military Academy, University of Illinois, and did his undergraduate work at University of North Carolina (UNC), from which he was graduated with the degree of B. S. His medical education was acquired at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and at the University of Maryland, where he received his medical degree in 1879.
Following graduation, the 22-year old returned to Tarboro and entered general practice with his father. On June 17, 1884, 26-year old Dr. Julian M. Baker married 20-year old Elizabeth Jiggetts Howard, daughter of the wealthy and prominent Judge George A. Howard of Tarboro.
The couple settled into housekeeping in Tarboro and would become parents to 3 known children-- all daughters: Anna Howard Baker (ca 1885), Susan Foxhall Baker (ca. 1891), and Elizabeth Howard Baker (1895-1978).
From the start of his medical practice, Dr. Julian Baker, specialized in surgery and gynecology. He was a Surgeon in Charge at Pittman Hospital in Tarboro, and helped organize and built the Tarboro General Hospital in 1916, (today Heritage Hospital). He was also surgeon of the First Regiment, North Carolina State Guard, and Assistant Surgeon General of NC under Governors Scales and Fowler. He served for a time as the Superintendent of Health for Edgecombe County, and as a Town Commissioner in Tarboro. He was President of the State Board of Medical Examiners and of the State Board of Health; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of the State Medical Society; President of the Red Cross Society of Edgecombe County; and has been identified with all the medical organizations, including the County, State, Tri-State, Seaboard and American Medical associations. He was former president of the State Medical Society and is a member of the Association of the Atlantic Coast Line Bailway Surgeons. He was the author of a number of published essays on medical subjects found in medical journals of the time, and he won the Pittman Prize essay for original research on malarial haematuria.
He was also Director of the Edgecombe Homestead and Loan Association. Dr. Baker was a member of the Presbyterian Church and active with Masonic Order. He was Past Master of Concord Lodge, No. 5S, A.F. and A. M., and Past High Priest Concord Chapter, R. A. M. He is a member of the Knights Templar, a Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason and belongs to the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
In 1910, Dr. Baker build a huge, 2-story clapboard house on the corner of Church and Main Streets in Tarboro, which has since been destroyed. The front portico porch covered the entire front of house, with stately columns and railing above. The location where the house was erected is now home to Tarboro Savings & Loan. There is a BAKER STREET in Taboro, but it was named for his father.
On March 16, 1903, Dr. Baker's career was almost ended when he was charged in the fatal shooting of his contemporary, Dr. Henry Turner Bass. According to old newspaper accounts, Baker shot Bass after witnesses said Bass jumped Baker as he was leaving the post office, reading a letter or book. The fight continued in the street when Baker drew a pistol and fired, striking Bass in the abdomen. Bass knew he was mortally wounded and had himself taken to his house where he succumbed that night. Dr. Baker was charged with "felonious killing" and stood trial. His lawyers argued self defense and he was found not guilty. Of interest, Dr. Bass' dying wish to his wife to tell their son, Spencer, that the feud between the two men be dropped. A later newspaper story said an investigation showed "the trouble between the two physicians had grown out of unsigned letters said to be received by Dr. Baker who ascribed them to Mrs. Bass." Bass asked for the letters and when Baker would not give them to him, he made the assault, a headline stated. [Dr. Bass is buried in Calvary Episcopal Cemetery - Memorial #148193.]
Despite the notoriety of this one incident, Dr. Baker had an unusually successful career in his chosen profession. He was a firm advocate of higher educational requirements in State laws for the practice of medicine, and believed that greater restrictions should be placed upon the practice of medical quacks and charlatans.
Doctor Baker is remembered "as a man of unusual ability, thoroughly in love with his work, with a deep undercurrent of sympathy for humanity, and money has never been a direct consideration or an end in itself, though he has been deservedly prospered. By his energy and capacity Dr. Baker has won for himself a strong position in the community which he serves, and has built up a character for good citizenship second to that of no man in his section."
Dr. Julian M. Bass died in 1935, just about a week shy of his 78th birthday. His wife of 51 years survived him 17 years, passing in 1952 at age 88.
As for his children, all 3 daughters married. Anna Baker married W. E. Turner of Rocky Mount, but divorced by 1930. She is mother to Julian Baker Turner. Susan married Dr. William W. Green, Jr. and was mother to 2 known children, including her son, Dr. William W. Green, III. Elizabeth married Curtiss Sprague, and they are both buried here in Greenwood Cemetery.
He was the paternal grandson of Dr. William Sparkman Baker and Julia Shurley/Shirley; and gr-grandson of Moses Baker (ca. 1779-aft 1850) and Elony Garrett, all of Edgecombe County. He is a direct descendant of Moses Baker (ca. 1708-1781) of Surry Co, VA who first came to Bertie County, NC ca. 1730. John Bennett Boddie in his books: "Southside Virginia Families", Vol. 1, "Virginia Historical Genealogies" and "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia" has devoted many pages to the families of Lawrence and Henry Baker and suggests that the Bakers were from Sussex and Kent, England and that they first settled in Virginia in the early seventeenth century. Lawrence Baker was granted land in Surry County, Virginia in 1650. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1666 to 1676. He died in 1681 and left his estate to his widow Elizabeth and his daughter Catherine, who was the wife of Arthur Allen. On his mother's side, Julian was the maternal grandson of William Foxhall and Sarah Dancy of Edgecombe.
Julian's mother died sometime after the birth of her last child in 1869, and his father remarried in 1874 to Ida Haywood Manly, daughter of NC Gov. Charles Manly. This marriage resulted in the birth of 2 more children.
Julian was educated at Tarboro Male Academy, Horner and Graves Military Academy, University of Illinois, and did his undergraduate work at University of North Carolina (UNC), from which he was graduated with the degree of B. S. His medical education was acquired at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and at the University of Maryland, where he received his medical degree in 1879.
Following graduation, the 22-year old returned to Tarboro and entered general practice with his father. On June 17, 1884, 26-year old Dr. Julian M. Baker married 20-year old Elizabeth Jiggetts Howard, daughter of the wealthy and prominent Judge George A. Howard of Tarboro.
The couple settled into housekeeping in Tarboro and would become parents to 3 known children-- all daughters: Anna Howard Baker (ca 1885), Susan Foxhall Baker (ca. 1891), and Elizabeth Howard Baker (1895-1978).
From the start of his medical practice, Dr. Julian Baker, specialized in surgery and gynecology. He was a Surgeon in Charge at Pittman Hospital in Tarboro, and helped organize and built the Tarboro General Hospital in 1916, (today Heritage Hospital). He was also surgeon of the First Regiment, North Carolina State Guard, and Assistant Surgeon General of NC under Governors Scales and Fowler. He served for a time as the Superintendent of Health for Edgecombe County, and as a Town Commissioner in Tarboro. He was President of the State Board of Medical Examiners and of the State Board of Health; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of the State Medical Society; President of the Red Cross Society of Edgecombe County; and has been identified with all the medical organizations, including the County, State, Tri-State, Seaboard and American Medical associations. He was former president of the State Medical Society and is a member of the Association of the Atlantic Coast Line Bailway Surgeons. He was the author of a number of published essays on medical subjects found in medical journals of the time, and he won the Pittman Prize essay for original research on malarial haematuria.
He was also Director of the Edgecombe Homestead and Loan Association. Dr. Baker was a member of the Presbyterian Church and active with Masonic Order. He was Past Master of Concord Lodge, No. 5S, A.F. and A. M., and Past High Priest Concord Chapter, R. A. M. He is a member of the Knights Templar, a Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason and belongs to the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
In 1910, Dr. Baker build a huge, 2-story clapboard house on the corner of Church and Main Streets in Tarboro, which has since been destroyed. The front portico porch covered the entire front of house, with stately columns and railing above. The location where the house was erected is now home to Tarboro Savings & Loan. There is a BAKER STREET in Taboro, but it was named for his father.
On March 16, 1903, Dr. Baker's career was almost ended when he was charged in the fatal shooting of his contemporary, Dr. Henry Turner Bass. According to old newspaper accounts, Baker shot Bass after witnesses said Bass jumped Baker as he was leaving the post office, reading a letter or book. The fight continued in the street when Baker drew a pistol and fired, striking Bass in the abdomen. Bass knew he was mortally wounded and had himself taken to his house where he succumbed that night. Dr. Baker was charged with "felonious killing" and stood trial. His lawyers argued self defense and he was found not guilty. Of interest, Dr. Bass' dying wish to his wife to tell their son, Spencer, that the feud between the two men be dropped. A later newspaper story said an investigation showed "the trouble between the two physicians had grown out of unsigned letters said to be received by Dr. Baker who ascribed them to Mrs. Bass." Bass asked for the letters and when Baker would not give them to him, he made the assault, a headline stated. [Dr. Bass is buried in Calvary Episcopal Cemetery - Memorial #148193.]
Despite the notoriety of this one incident, Dr. Baker had an unusually successful career in his chosen profession. He was a firm advocate of higher educational requirements in State laws for the practice of medicine, and believed that greater restrictions should be placed upon the practice of medical quacks and charlatans.
Doctor Baker is remembered "as a man of unusual ability, thoroughly in love with his work, with a deep undercurrent of sympathy for humanity, and money has never been a direct consideration or an end in itself, though he has been deservedly prospered. By his energy and capacity Dr. Baker has won for himself a strong position in the community which he serves, and has built up a character for good citizenship second to that of no man in his section."
Dr. Julian M. Bass died in 1935, just about a week shy of his 78th birthday. His wife of 51 years survived him 17 years, passing in 1952 at age 88.
As for his children, all 3 daughters married. Anna Baker married W. E. Turner of Rocky Mount, but divorced by 1930. She is mother to Julian Baker Turner. Susan married Dr. William W. Green, Jr. and was mother to 2 known children, including her son, Dr. William W. Green, III. Elizabeth married Curtiss Sprague, and they are both buried here in Greenwood Cemetery.
Julian Meredith Baker was born 1857 in Tarboro, Edgecombe Co, NC, the 2nd of 5 known surviving children (all boys) born to noted physician and Civil War veteran, Dr. Joseph Henry Baker and his wife, Susan D. Foxhall. He was a third generation physician in this noted family.
He was the paternal grandson of Dr. William Sparkman Baker and Julia Shurley/Shirley; and gr-grandson of Moses Baker (ca. 1779-aft 1850) and Elony Garrett, all of Edgecombe County. He is a direct descendant of Moses Baker (ca. 1708-1781) of Surry Co, VA who first came to Bertie County, NC ca. 1730. John Bennett Boddie in his books: "Southside Virginia Families", Vol. 1, "Virginia Historical Genealogies" and "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia" has devoted many pages to the families of Lawrence and Henry Baker and suggests that the Bakers were from Sussex and Kent, England and that they first settled in Virginia in the early seventeenth century. Lawrence Baker was granted land in Surry County, Virginia in 1650. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1666 to 1676. He died in 1681 and left his estate to his widow Elizabeth and his daughter Catherine, who was the wife of Arthur Allen. On his mother's side, Julian was the maternal grandson of William Foxhall and Sarah Dancy of Edgecombe.
Julian's mother died sometime after the birth of her last child in 1869, and his father remarried in 1874 to Ida Haywood Manly, daughter of NC Gov. Charles Manly. This marriage resulted in the birth of 2 more children.
Julian was educated at Tarboro Male Academy, Horner and Graves Military Academy, University of Illinois, and did his undergraduate work at University of North Carolina (UNC), from which he was graduated with the degree of B. S. His medical education was acquired at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and at the University of Maryland, where he received his medical degree in 1879.
Following graduation, the 22-year old returned to Tarboro and entered general practice with his father. On June 17, 1884, 26-year old Dr. Julian M. Baker married 20-year old Elizabeth Jiggetts Howard, daughter of the wealthy and prominent Judge George A. Howard of Tarboro.
The couple settled into housekeeping in Tarboro and would become parents to 3 known children-- all daughters: Anna Howard Baker (ca 1885), Susan Foxhall Baker (ca. 1891), and Elizabeth Howard Baker (1895-1978).
From the start of his medical practice, Dr. Julian Baker, specialized in surgery and gynecology. He was a Surgeon in Charge at Pittman Hospital in Tarboro, and helped organize and built the Tarboro General Hospital in 1916, (today Heritage Hospital). He was also surgeon of the First Regiment, North Carolina State Guard, and Assistant Surgeon General of NC under Governors Scales and Fowler. He served for a time as the Superintendent of Health for Edgecombe County, and as a Town Commissioner in Tarboro. He was President of the State Board of Medical Examiners and of the State Board of Health; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of the State Medical Society; President of the Red Cross Society of Edgecombe County; and has been identified with all the medical organizations, including the County, State, Tri-State, Seaboard and American Medical associations. He was former president of the State Medical Society and is a member of the Association of the Atlantic Coast Line Bailway Surgeons. He was the author of a number of published essays on medical subjects found in medical journals of the time, and he won the Pittman Prize essay for original research on malarial haematuria.
He was also Director of the Edgecombe Homestead and Loan Association. Dr. Baker was a member of the Presbyterian Church and active with Masonic Order. He was Past Master of Concord Lodge, No. 5S, A.F. and A. M., and Past High Priest Concord Chapter, R. A. M. He is a member of the Knights Templar, a Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason and belongs to the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
In 1910, Dr. Baker build a huge, 2-story clapboard house on the corner of Church and Main Streets in Tarboro, which has since been destroyed. The front portico porch covered the entire front of house, with stately columns and railing above. The location where the house was erected is now home to Tarboro Savings & Loan. There is a BAKER STREET in Taboro, but it was named for his father.
On March 16, 1903, Dr. Baker's career was almost ended when he was charged in the fatal shooting of his contemporary, Dr. Henry Turner Bass. According to old newspaper accounts, Baker shot Bass after witnesses said Bass jumped Baker as he was leaving the post office, reading a letter or book. The fight continued in the street when Baker drew a pistol and fired, striking Bass in the abdomen. Bass knew he was mortally wounded and had himself taken to his house where he succumbed that night. Dr. Baker was charged with "felonious killing" and stood trial. His lawyers argued self defense and he was found not guilty. Of interest, Dr. Bass' dying wish to his wife to tell their son, Spencer, that the feud between the two men be dropped. A later newspaper story said an investigation showed "the trouble between the two physicians had grown out of unsigned letters said to be received by Dr. Baker who ascribed them to Mrs. Bass." Bass asked for the letters and when Baker would not give them to him, he made the assault, a headline stated. [Dr. Bass is buried in Calvary Episcopal Cemetery - Memorial #148193.]
Despite the notoriety of this one incident, Dr. Baker had an unusually successful career in his chosen profession. He was a firm advocate of higher educational requirements in State laws for the practice of medicine, and believed that greater restrictions should be placed upon the practice of medical quacks and charlatans.
Doctor Baker is remembered "as a man of unusual ability, thoroughly in love with his work, with a deep undercurrent of sympathy for humanity, and money has never been a direct consideration or an end in itself, though he has been deservedly prospered. By his energy and capacity Dr. Baker has won for himself a strong position in the community which he serves, and has built up a character for good citizenship second to that of no man in his section."
Dr. Julian M. Bass died in 1935, just about a week shy of his 78th birthday. His wife of 51 years survived him 17 years, passing in 1952 at age 88.
As for his children, all 3 daughters married. Anna Baker married W. E. Turner of Rocky Mount, but divorced by 1930. She is mother to Julian Baker Turner. Susan married Dr. William W. Green, Jr. and was mother to 2 known children, including her son, Dr. William W. Green, III. Elizabeth married Curtiss Sprague, and they are both buried here in Greenwood Cemetery.
He was the paternal grandson of Dr. William Sparkman Baker and Julia Shurley/Shirley; and gr-grandson of Moses Baker (ca. 1779-aft 1850) and Elony Garrett, all of Edgecombe County. He is a direct descendant of Moses Baker (ca. 1708-1781) of Surry Co, VA who first came to Bertie County, NC ca. 1730. John Bennett Boddie in his books: "Southside Virginia Families", Vol. 1, "Virginia Historical Genealogies" and "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia" has devoted many pages to the families of Lawrence and Henry Baker and suggests that the Bakers were from Sussex and Kent, England and that they first settled in Virginia in the early seventeenth century. Lawrence Baker was granted land in Surry County, Virginia in 1650. He was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1666 to 1676. He died in 1681 and left his estate to his widow Elizabeth and his daughter Catherine, who was the wife of Arthur Allen. On his mother's side, Julian was the maternal grandson of William Foxhall and Sarah Dancy of Edgecombe.
Julian's mother died sometime after the birth of her last child in 1869, and his father remarried in 1874 to Ida Haywood Manly, daughter of NC Gov. Charles Manly. This marriage resulted in the birth of 2 more children.
Julian was educated at Tarboro Male Academy, Horner and Graves Military Academy, University of Illinois, and did his undergraduate work at University of North Carolina (UNC), from which he was graduated with the degree of B. S. His medical education was acquired at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and at the University of Maryland, where he received his medical degree in 1879.
Following graduation, the 22-year old returned to Tarboro and entered general practice with his father. On June 17, 1884, 26-year old Dr. Julian M. Baker married 20-year old Elizabeth Jiggetts Howard, daughter of the wealthy and prominent Judge George A. Howard of Tarboro.
The couple settled into housekeeping in Tarboro and would become parents to 3 known children-- all daughters: Anna Howard Baker (ca 1885), Susan Foxhall Baker (ca. 1891), and Elizabeth Howard Baker (1895-1978).
From the start of his medical practice, Dr. Julian Baker, specialized in surgery and gynecology. He was a Surgeon in Charge at Pittman Hospital in Tarboro, and helped organize and built the Tarboro General Hospital in 1916, (today Heritage Hospital). He was also surgeon of the First Regiment, North Carolina State Guard, and Assistant Surgeon General of NC under Governors Scales and Fowler. He served for a time as the Superintendent of Health for Edgecombe County, and as a Town Commissioner in Tarboro. He was President of the State Board of Medical Examiners and of the State Board of Health; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of the State Medical Society; President of the Red Cross Society of Edgecombe County; and has been identified with all the medical organizations, including the County, State, Tri-State, Seaboard and American Medical associations. He was former president of the State Medical Society and is a member of the Association of the Atlantic Coast Line Bailway Surgeons. He was the author of a number of published essays on medical subjects found in medical journals of the time, and he won the Pittman Prize essay for original research on malarial haematuria.
He was also Director of the Edgecombe Homestead and Loan Association. Dr. Baker was a member of the Presbyterian Church and active with Masonic Order. He was Past Master of Concord Lodge, No. 5S, A.F. and A. M., and Past High Priest Concord Chapter, R. A. M. He is a member of the Knights Templar, a Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason and belongs to the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
In 1910, Dr. Baker build a huge, 2-story clapboard house on the corner of Church and Main Streets in Tarboro, which has since been destroyed. The front portico porch covered the entire front of house, with stately columns and railing above. The location where the house was erected is now home to Tarboro Savings & Loan. There is a BAKER STREET in Taboro, but it was named for his father.
On March 16, 1903, Dr. Baker's career was almost ended when he was charged in the fatal shooting of his contemporary, Dr. Henry Turner Bass. According to old newspaper accounts, Baker shot Bass after witnesses said Bass jumped Baker as he was leaving the post office, reading a letter or book. The fight continued in the street when Baker drew a pistol and fired, striking Bass in the abdomen. Bass knew he was mortally wounded and had himself taken to his house where he succumbed that night. Dr. Baker was charged with "felonious killing" and stood trial. His lawyers argued self defense and he was found not guilty. Of interest, Dr. Bass' dying wish to his wife to tell their son, Spencer, that the feud between the two men be dropped. A later newspaper story said an investigation showed "the trouble between the two physicians had grown out of unsigned letters said to be received by Dr. Baker who ascribed them to Mrs. Bass." Bass asked for the letters and when Baker would not give them to him, he made the assault, a headline stated. [Dr. Bass is buried in Calvary Episcopal Cemetery - Memorial #148193.]
Despite the notoriety of this one incident, Dr. Baker had an unusually successful career in his chosen profession. He was a firm advocate of higher educational requirements in State laws for the practice of medicine, and believed that greater restrictions should be placed upon the practice of medical quacks and charlatans.
Doctor Baker is remembered "as a man of unusual ability, thoroughly in love with his work, with a deep undercurrent of sympathy for humanity, and money has never been a direct consideration or an end in itself, though he has been deservedly prospered. By his energy and capacity Dr. Baker has won for himself a strong position in the community which he serves, and has built up a character for good citizenship second to that of no man in his section."
Dr. Julian M. Bass died in 1935, just about a week shy of his 78th birthday. His wife of 51 years survived him 17 years, passing in 1952 at age 88.
As for his children, all 3 daughters married. Anna Baker married W. E. Turner of Rocky Mount, but divorced by 1930. She is mother to Julian Baker Turner. Susan married Dr. William W. Green, Jr. and was mother to 2 known children, including her son, Dr. William W. Green, III. Elizabeth married Curtiss Sprague, and they are both buried here in Greenwood Cemetery.
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