This Bio was written by: Edythe Marie GOSSLER 1905-1990 wife of Malcolm Briggs KNISELY 1900 -1954 Malcolm was related to the Baker family threw Clarissa BAKER (1819 -1894) Zeno GOULD (1818-1902 )
(BAKER: During 1850's Addison went to Denver, Colo. - married his double cousin. Had 2 children: Helen and Nathan. Helen was the masculine type; Nathan was more effeminate. They lived on a farm that was later sold to the railroad for a big price. Helen raised stallions and lost all her money - married one of the horse handlers. Nathan married better but lost his money in a gold mine. They had a daughter who lived in Denver.
When Addison died he had a monumnet put up in the cemetery over his grave of a true likeness of his favorite stallion. This is today pointed out to tourists on sight-seeing buses.)
Addison Elton Baker, son of Nathan Baker and Mahala Shattuck, married his first cousin Charlotte Baker in 1839 in Batavia, Genesee, New York. Son Nathan Addison Baker, was born in 1843 near Lockport, New York. The family removed to Racine, Wisconsin, where their second child Helen C. Baker was born in 1851. The Bakers then removed to Omaha, Nebraska, residing there for about a year, then set out in two wagons on February 22, 1860 arriving in Denver on March 15, 1860.
Addison farmed 25 acres of land that now lies under and to the south of Colfax viaduct. "This was a favorite stopping place of General John C. Fremont, Kit Carson and other pioneer scouts camping ground of early pioneers." It was on this property, known as Baker's Springs, that provided the first water supply for Denver."
The Baker family are early pioneers of Colorado. They are first found in the Arapahoe County, Territory of Kansas Census in 1860. The Corbett Denver City Directory of 1883 lists Addison's address as "r Grand Avenue foot of 5th" with Grand Avenue, being a western extension of Colfax to the Platte River.
On April 30, 1932, a bronze table was placed on the 14th Street viaduct at the mouth of Cherry Creek bearing the following inscription "Baker's Spring, 250 Ft. South."
Marked by Peace Pipe Chapter D. A. R.
Source: McGrath, Maria Davies, "The Real Pionners of Colorado", The Denver Museum, 1934, Denver, Public Library, Western History & Genealogy, retyped by Volunteer, Jane P. Ohol, 2001.
(BAKER: During 1850's Addison went to Denver, Colo. - married his double cousin. Had 2 children: Helen and Nathan. Helen was the masculine type; Nathan was more effeminate. They lived on a farm that was later sold to the railroad for a big price. Helen raised stallions and lost all her money - married one of the horse handlers. Nathan married better but lost his money in a gold mine. They had a daughter who lived in Denver.
When Addison died he had a monumnet put up in the cemetery over his grave of a true likeness of his favorite stallion. This is today pointed out to tourists on sight-seeing buses.)
Addison Elton Baker, son of Nathan Baker and Mahala Shattuck, married his first cousin Charlotte Baker in 1839 in Batavia, Genesee, New York. Son Nathan Addison Baker, was born in 1843 near Lockport, New York. The family removed to Racine, Wisconsin, where their second child Helen C. Baker was born in 1851. The Bakers then removed to Omaha, Nebraska, residing there for about a year, then set out in two wagons on February 22, 1860 arriving in Denver on March 15, 1860.
Addison farmed 25 acres of land that now lies under and to the south of Colfax viaduct. "This was a favorite stopping place of General John C. Fremont, Kit Carson and other pioneer scouts camping ground of early pioneers." It was on this property, known as Baker's Springs, that provided the first water supply for Denver."
The Baker family are early pioneers of Colorado. They are first found in the Arapahoe County, Territory of Kansas Census in 1860. The Corbett Denver City Directory of 1883 lists Addison's address as "r Grand Avenue foot of 5th" with Grand Avenue, being a western extension of Colfax to the Platte River.
On April 30, 1932, a bronze table was placed on the 14th Street viaduct at the mouth of Cherry Creek bearing the following inscription "Baker's Spring, 250 Ft. South."
Marked by Peace Pipe Chapter D. A. R.
Source: McGrath, Maria Davies, "The Real Pionners of Colorado", The Denver Museum, 1934, Denver, Public Library, Western History & Genealogy, retyped by Volunteer, Jane P. Ohol, 2001.
This Bio was written by: Edythe Marie GOSSLER 1905-1990 wife of Malcolm Briggs KNISELY 1900 -1954 Malcolm was related to the Baker family threw Clarissa BAKER (1819 -1894) Zeno GOULD (1818-1902 )
(BAKER: During 1850's Addison went to Denver, Colo. - married his double cousin. Had 2 children: Helen and Nathan. Helen was the masculine type; Nathan was more effeminate. They lived on a farm that was later sold to the railroad for a big price. Helen raised stallions and lost all her money - married one of the horse handlers. Nathan married better but lost his money in a gold mine. They had a daughter who lived in Denver.
When Addison died he had a monumnet put up in the cemetery over his grave of a true likeness of his favorite stallion. This is today pointed out to tourists on sight-seeing buses.)
Addison Elton Baker, son of Nathan Baker and Mahala Shattuck, married his first cousin Charlotte Baker in 1839 in Batavia, Genesee, New York. Son Nathan Addison Baker, was born in 1843 near Lockport, New York. The family removed to Racine, Wisconsin, where their second child Helen C. Baker was born in 1851. The Bakers then removed to Omaha, Nebraska, residing there for about a year, then set out in two wagons on February 22, 1860 arriving in Denver on March 15, 1860.
Addison farmed 25 acres of land that now lies under and to the south of Colfax viaduct. "This was a favorite stopping place of General John C. Fremont, Kit Carson and other pioneer scouts camping ground of early pioneers." It was on this property, known as Baker's Springs, that provided the first water supply for Denver."
The Baker family are early pioneers of Colorado. They are first found in the Arapahoe County, Territory of Kansas Census in 1860. The Corbett Denver City Directory of 1883 lists Addison's address as "r Grand Avenue foot of 5th" with Grand Avenue, being a western extension of Colfax to the Platte River.
On April 30, 1932, a bronze table was placed on the 14th Street viaduct at the mouth of Cherry Creek bearing the following inscription "Baker's Spring, 250 Ft. South."
Marked by Peace Pipe Chapter D. A. R.
Source: McGrath, Maria Davies, "The Real Pionners of Colorado", The Denver Museum, 1934, Denver, Public Library, Western History & Genealogy, retyped by Volunteer, Jane P. Ohol, 2001.
(BAKER: During 1850's Addison went to Denver, Colo. - married his double cousin. Had 2 children: Helen and Nathan. Helen was the masculine type; Nathan was more effeminate. They lived on a farm that was later sold to the railroad for a big price. Helen raised stallions and lost all her money - married one of the horse handlers. Nathan married better but lost his money in a gold mine. They had a daughter who lived in Denver.
When Addison died he had a monumnet put up in the cemetery over his grave of a true likeness of his favorite stallion. This is today pointed out to tourists on sight-seeing buses.)
Addison Elton Baker, son of Nathan Baker and Mahala Shattuck, married his first cousin Charlotte Baker in 1839 in Batavia, Genesee, New York. Son Nathan Addison Baker, was born in 1843 near Lockport, New York. The family removed to Racine, Wisconsin, where their second child Helen C. Baker was born in 1851. The Bakers then removed to Omaha, Nebraska, residing there for about a year, then set out in two wagons on February 22, 1860 arriving in Denver on March 15, 1860.
Addison farmed 25 acres of land that now lies under and to the south of Colfax viaduct. "This was a favorite stopping place of General John C. Fremont, Kit Carson and other pioneer scouts camping ground of early pioneers." It was on this property, known as Baker's Springs, that provided the first water supply for Denver."
The Baker family are early pioneers of Colorado. They are first found in the Arapahoe County, Territory of Kansas Census in 1860. The Corbett Denver City Directory of 1883 lists Addison's address as "r Grand Avenue foot of 5th" with Grand Avenue, being a western extension of Colfax to the Platte River.
On April 30, 1932, a bronze table was placed on the 14th Street viaduct at the mouth of Cherry Creek bearing the following inscription "Baker's Spring, 250 Ft. South."
Marked by Peace Pipe Chapter D. A. R.
Source: McGrath, Maria Davies, "The Real Pionners of Colorado", The Denver Museum, 1934, Denver, Public Library, Western History & Genealogy, retyped by Volunteer, Jane P. Ohol, 2001.
