He was called Dr. Otho Baker, as he was familiarly called because of his fame as a "fortune teller". For many years his home was thronged daily with people coming from long distances to have their fortunes told. He could tell the whereabouts of stolen property or other secret information.
One particular case in point was illustrated by the experience of a sheriff who came all the way from Arkansas to see if Baker could give him information on a prominent resident of his country who was missing. The sheriff was told to go home and look up in an attic of a big barn on the missing man's premises and he would find the corpse there hung by a halter. The Sheriff went back and found the body as described. The man had committed suicide. Hundreds of the results of Otho's powers could be given. How he could peer into the future or learn from the past was as much a mystery to him as his patrons.
Otho was born in Harrison County, Ohio and at an early date he moved to Porter County, Indiana, where farming was his principal occupation up to and after the Civil War. He married Nancy Coppernoll who was born in Oneida County, New York and moved to Mishawaia, Indiana. Click on her attachment to find out more about Nancy, provided by her descendants.
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One particular case in point was illustrated by the experience of a sheriff who came all the way from Arkansas to see if Baker could give him information on a prominent resident of his country who was missing. The sheriff was told to go home and look up in an attic of a big barn on the missing man's premises and he would find the corpse there hung by a halter. The Sheriff went back and found the body as described. The man had committed suicide. Hundreds of the results of Otho's powers could be given. How he could peer into the future or learn from the past was as much a mystery to him as his patrons.
Otho was born in Harrison County, Ohio and at an early date he moved to Porter County, Indiana, where farming was his principal occupation up to and after the Civil War. He married Nancy Coppernoll who was born in Oneida County, New York and moved to Mishawaia, Indiana. Click on her attachment to find out more about Nancy, provided by her descendants.
HIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY DESCENDANTS OF THIS FAMILY AND IT IS NOT TO BE COPIED WITHOUT PERMISSION.
He was called Dr. Otho Baker, as he was familiarly called because of his fame as a "fortune teller". For many years his home was thronged daily with people coming from long distances to have their fortunes told. He could tell the whereabouts of stolen property or other secret information.
One particular case in point was illustrated by the experience of a sheriff who came all the way from Arkansas to see if Baker could give him information on a prominent resident of his country who was missing. The sheriff was told to go home and look up in an attic of a big barn on the missing man's premises and he would find the corpse there hung by a halter. The Sheriff went back and found the body as described. The man had committed suicide. Hundreds of the results of Otho's powers could be given. How he could peer into the future or learn from the past was as much a mystery to him as his patrons.
Otho was born in Harrison County, Ohio and at an early date he moved to Porter County, Indiana, where farming was his principal occupation up to and after the Civil War. He married Nancy Coppernoll who was born in Oneida County, New York and moved to Mishawaia, Indiana. Click on her attachment to find out more about Nancy, provided by her descendants.
HIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY DESCENDANTS OF THIS FAMILY AND IT IS NOT TO BE COPIED WITHOUT PERMISSION.
One particular case in point was illustrated by the experience of a sheriff who came all the way from Arkansas to see if Baker could give him information on a prominent resident of his country who was missing. The sheriff was told to go home and look up in an attic of a big barn on the missing man's premises and he would find the corpse there hung by a halter. The Sheriff went back and found the body as described. The man had committed suicide. Hundreds of the results of Otho's powers could be given. How he could peer into the future or learn from the past was as much a mystery to him as his patrons.
Otho was born in Harrison County, Ohio and at an early date he moved to Porter County, Indiana, where farming was his principal occupation up to and after the Civil War. He married Nancy Coppernoll who was born in Oneida County, New York and moved to Mishawaia, Indiana. Click on her attachment to find out more about Nancy, provided by her descendants.
HIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY DESCENDANTS OF THIS FAMILY AND IT IS NOT TO BE COPIED WITHOUT PERMISSION.
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