David Baker was born in the state of New York, March 30, 1823, and Elizabeth J. Monroe on Feb. 18, 1839, at Zane, Logan County, Ohio. They were married by the Rev. J. L. Borton at Hale, Hardin County, Ohio, on Aug. 13, 1856, and came west in the fall of that year, settling on a homestead in Pierce County, Wisconsin, which at that time was a wilderness.
Mr. Baker was a minister of the Protestant Methodist Church and was active in that capacity for over 40 years, but he received little for his services, as the people of the communities in which he and his family lived were nearly all poor, and the denomination was not a strong one in numbers nor wealth. His own life, and that of his faithful hard-working wife, seems to have been a long struggle against poverty and adverse conditions, and the family endured many privations.
From Pierce County they moved in 1875 to Goldfield, in Wright County, Iowa, which is in the northern central part of that state, and there they remained until the spring of 1877, when they returned to Wisconsin, Mr. Baker homesteading 160 acres of wild land in the town of Sand Creek, Dunn County. The family then numbered seven persons, himself and wife and five children, and they were so poor that they sometimes subsisted for days on potatoes and salt. Not only was the nearest market 30 miles distant, but the soil of the farm was poor and sandy, the surface also being rough and hilly. The journey to Menomonie had to be made on foot, or with an ox team or "an old plug" of a horse. It seems to have been a poor choice of location, but perhaps was the best that Mr. Baker could make at the time; in any case he stuck to it and in time managed to break 40 acres of his farm. It is pleasing to record that he and his wife had easier times in their latter years, for as their children grew up they proved helpful and the old folks no longer had to toil despairingly for a living that was little better than starvation.
They both attained advanced years, David W. Baker dying in Sand Creek on July 14, 1907, and Mrs. Elizabeth J. Baker at Sumner, Wash., on Aug. 5, 1924.
Their children were nine in number, namely:
1. Joseph I., born Aug. 10, 1857, now in Sumner, Wash.;
2. Elnathan, born Nov. 3, 1861, who has his on write up;
3. Electa A., born July 19, 1863, who died in infancy;
4. David, born July 7, 1865, deceased;
5. Eva M., born May 12, 1868, now the wife of James A. Bortle of Sumner, Wash.;
6. Lily J., born March 27, 1870, deceased;
7. James F., born Sept. 22, 1872, now of Van Norman, Mont.;
8. Edith, born Feb. 28, 1875, wife of John Hogan of Cabin Creek, Mont.; and
9. Alice, born Sept. 17, 1877, wife of Riley Day of Kelso, Wash.
Source: Curtiss-Wedge, F.; Jones, Geo. O. (ed.) / "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin"
(1925) pages 336-337
Mr. Baker was a minister of the Protestant Methodist Church and was active in that capacity for over 40 years, but he received little for his services, as the people of the communities in which he and his family lived were nearly all poor, and the denomination was not a strong one in numbers nor wealth. His own life, and that of his faithful hard-working wife, seems to have been a long struggle against poverty and adverse conditions, and the family endured many privations.
From Pierce County they moved in 1875 to Goldfield, in Wright County, Iowa, which is in the northern central part of that state, and there they remained until the spring of 1877, when they returned to Wisconsin, Mr. Baker homesteading 160 acres of wild land in the town of Sand Creek, Dunn County. The family then numbered seven persons, himself and wife and five children, and they were so poor that they sometimes subsisted for days on potatoes and salt. Not only was the nearest market 30 miles distant, but the soil of the farm was poor and sandy, the surface also being rough and hilly. The journey to Menomonie had to be made on foot, or with an ox team or "an old plug" of a horse. It seems to have been a poor choice of location, but perhaps was the best that Mr. Baker could make at the time; in any case he stuck to it and in time managed to break 40 acres of his farm. It is pleasing to record that he and his wife had easier times in their latter years, for as their children grew up they proved helpful and the old folks no longer had to toil despairingly for a living that was little better than starvation.
They both attained advanced years, David W. Baker dying in Sand Creek on July 14, 1907, and Mrs. Elizabeth J. Baker at Sumner, Wash., on Aug. 5, 1924.
Their children were nine in number, namely:
1. Joseph I., born Aug. 10, 1857, now in Sumner, Wash.;
2. Elnathan, born Nov. 3, 1861, who has his on write up;
3. Electa A., born July 19, 1863, who died in infancy;
4. David, born July 7, 1865, deceased;
5. Eva M., born May 12, 1868, now the wife of James A. Bortle of Sumner, Wash.;
6. Lily J., born March 27, 1870, deceased;
7. James F., born Sept. 22, 1872, now of Van Norman, Mont.;
8. Edith, born Feb. 28, 1875, wife of John Hogan of Cabin Creek, Mont.; and
9. Alice, born Sept. 17, 1877, wife of Riley Day of Kelso, Wash.
Source: Curtiss-Wedge, F.; Jones, Geo. O. (ed.) / "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin"
(1925) pages 336-337
David Baker was born in the state of New York, March 30, 1823, and Elizabeth J. Monroe on Feb. 18, 1839, at Zane, Logan County, Ohio. They were married by the Rev. J. L. Borton at Hale, Hardin County, Ohio, on Aug. 13, 1856, and came west in the fall of that year, settling on a homestead in Pierce County, Wisconsin, which at that time was a wilderness.
Mr. Baker was a minister of the Protestant Methodist Church and was active in that capacity for over 40 years, but he received little for his services, as the people of the communities in which he and his family lived were nearly all poor, and the denomination was not a strong one in numbers nor wealth. His own life, and that of his faithful hard-working wife, seems to have been a long struggle against poverty and adverse conditions, and the family endured many privations.
From Pierce County they moved in 1875 to Goldfield, in Wright County, Iowa, which is in the northern central part of that state, and there they remained until the spring of 1877, when they returned to Wisconsin, Mr. Baker homesteading 160 acres of wild land in the town of Sand Creek, Dunn County. The family then numbered seven persons, himself and wife and five children, and they were so poor that they sometimes subsisted for days on potatoes and salt. Not only was the nearest market 30 miles distant, but the soil of the farm was poor and sandy, the surface also being rough and hilly. The journey to Menomonie had to be made on foot, or with an ox team or "an old plug" of a horse. It seems to have been a poor choice of location, but perhaps was the best that Mr. Baker could make at the time; in any case he stuck to it and in time managed to break 40 acres of his farm. It is pleasing to record that he and his wife had easier times in their latter years, for as their children grew up they proved helpful and the old folks no longer had to toil despairingly for a living that was little better than starvation.
They both attained advanced years, David W. Baker dying in Sand Creek on July 14, 1907, and Mrs. Elizabeth J. Baker at Sumner, Wash., on Aug. 5, 1924.
Their children were nine in number, namely:
1. Joseph I., born Aug. 10, 1857, now in Sumner, Wash.;
2. Elnathan, born Nov. 3, 1861, who has his on write up;
3. Electa A., born July 19, 1863, who died in infancy;
4. David, born July 7, 1865, deceased;
5. Eva M., born May 12, 1868, now the wife of James A. Bortle of Sumner, Wash.;
6. Lily J., born March 27, 1870, deceased;
7. James F., born Sept. 22, 1872, now of Van Norman, Mont.;
8. Edith, born Feb. 28, 1875, wife of John Hogan of Cabin Creek, Mont.; and
9. Alice, born Sept. 17, 1877, wife of Riley Day of Kelso, Wash.
Source: Curtiss-Wedge, F.; Jones, Geo. O. (ed.) / "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin"
(1925) pages 336-337
Mr. Baker was a minister of the Protestant Methodist Church and was active in that capacity for over 40 years, but he received little for his services, as the people of the communities in which he and his family lived were nearly all poor, and the denomination was not a strong one in numbers nor wealth. His own life, and that of his faithful hard-working wife, seems to have been a long struggle against poverty and adverse conditions, and the family endured many privations.
From Pierce County they moved in 1875 to Goldfield, in Wright County, Iowa, which is in the northern central part of that state, and there they remained until the spring of 1877, when they returned to Wisconsin, Mr. Baker homesteading 160 acres of wild land in the town of Sand Creek, Dunn County. The family then numbered seven persons, himself and wife and five children, and they were so poor that they sometimes subsisted for days on potatoes and salt. Not only was the nearest market 30 miles distant, but the soil of the farm was poor and sandy, the surface also being rough and hilly. The journey to Menomonie had to be made on foot, or with an ox team or "an old plug" of a horse. It seems to have been a poor choice of location, but perhaps was the best that Mr. Baker could make at the time; in any case he stuck to it and in time managed to break 40 acres of his farm. It is pleasing to record that he and his wife had easier times in their latter years, for as their children grew up they proved helpful and the old folks no longer had to toil despairingly for a living that was little better than starvation.
They both attained advanced years, David W. Baker dying in Sand Creek on July 14, 1907, and Mrs. Elizabeth J. Baker at Sumner, Wash., on Aug. 5, 1924.
Their children were nine in number, namely:
1. Joseph I., born Aug. 10, 1857, now in Sumner, Wash.;
2. Elnathan, born Nov. 3, 1861, who has his on write up;
3. Electa A., born July 19, 1863, who died in infancy;
4. David, born July 7, 1865, deceased;
5. Eva M., born May 12, 1868, now the wife of James A. Bortle of Sumner, Wash.;
6. Lily J., born March 27, 1870, deceased;
7. James F., born Sept. 22, 1872, now of Van Norman, Mont.;
8. Edith, born Feb. 28, 1875, wife of John Hogan of Cabin Creek, Mont.; and
9. Alice, born Sept. 17, 1877, wife of Riley Day of Kelso, Wash.
Source: Curtiss-Wedge, F.; Jones, Geo. O. (ed.) / "History of Dunn County, Wisconsin"
(1925) pages 336-337
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