Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Thursday, March 18, 1909
Hon. Ananias BAKER died at Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening, of tubercular trouble.
Mr. Baker became afflicted with tuberculosis some little while ago, and with characteristic energy put up a game fight against the ravages of the disease by erecting an out door tent in which he lived for some time. About a month ago he went to New Mexico hoping the climate would benefit his health, but the trip proved fruitless and death came up him in a strange land. Mrs. Baker made the trip with him and was at the bedside when he passed away.
The body will be shipped to Rochester for burial and will arrive some time Saturday, after which the funeral arrangements will be made.
Ananias Baker was a Virginian by birth, being born in a one-room log cabin near Strausburg, Virgina, January 9, 1848. He was the son of Abraham and Terzah BAKER, both of whom are dead. He attended school for a few years in a log school house and later took several terms in a subscription school.
At the age of 21 he left home for Ohio where he started life for himself as a book agent traveling through Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois. In 1872 he came to Fulton county where he met Miss T.M. HOLDER to whom he was married in December of that year. Here he took up the business at which he rapidly accumulated a comfortable fortune.
He was a member and moving spirit in the Christian church, a Mason and an Odd Fellow.
Politically, Mr. Baker was for years an active democrat, but later joined the Republican party, and in 1904 was elected to the state legislature as the representative of Cass and Fulton counties. While in the legislature Mr. Baker achieved a prominence that seldom comes to a legistor by reason of his activity in behalf of the passage of the cigarette law and his exposure of the corrupt methods of the tobacco trust in attempted briber. Mr. Baker's exposure created quite a furor at the time, and he received considerable attention from the press of the country for his stand for legislative purity. Mr. Baker was also severely criticised and ridiculed at the time, but the people of Rochester who knew him never questioned his motives or integrity.
Besides the faithful wife, four children survive: Mrs. India KILMER and Miss Pearl BAKER, of this city; Mr. Archie BAKER of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs. Belle MONTGOMERY, of UVALDA, Texas. Four brothers and three sisters are also living, all whom reside in Virginia, except James BAKER, of Pittsburgh, Penn.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Monday, March 22, 1909
The body of Hon. A. BAKER arrived in Rochester, today, over the Erie at 1:35 o'clock from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The funeral will be held at the Baker residence Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and the services will be conducted by Rev. C. H. DEVOE, of Peru. The funeral will be in charge of the Masons. Friends may view the body at anytime Wednesday morning.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs - 1908-1910
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Thursday, March 18, 1909
Hon. Ananias BAKER died at Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening, of tubercular trouble.
Mr. Baker became afflicted with tuberculosis some little while ago, and with characteristic energy put up a game fight against the ravages of the disease by erecting an out door tent in which he lived for some time. About a month ago he went to New Mexico hoping the climate would benefit his health, but the trip proved fruitless and death came up him in a strange land. Mrs. Baker made the trip with him and was at the bedside when he passed away.
The body will be shipped to Rochester for burial and will arrive some time Saturday, after which the funeral arrangements will be made.
Ananias Baker was a Virginian by birth, being born in a one-room log cabin near Strausburg, Virgina, January 9, 1848. He was the son of Abraham and Terzah BAKER, both of whom are dead. He attended school for a few years in a log school house and later took several terms in a subscription school.
At the age of 21 he left home for Ohio where he started life for himself as a book agent traveling through Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois. In 1872 he came to Fulton county where he met Miss T.M. HOLDER to whom he was married in December of that year. Here he took up the business at which he rapidly accumulated a comfortable fortune.
He was a member and moving spirit in the Christian church, a Mason and an Odd Fellow.
Politically, Mr. Baker was for years an active democrat, but later joined the Republican party, and in 1904 was elected to the state legislature as the representative of Cass and Fulton counties. While in the legislature Mr. Baker achieved a prominence that seldom comes to a legistor by reason of his activity in behalf of the passage of the cigarette law and his exposure of the corrupt methods of the tobacco trust in attempted briber. Mr. Baker's exposure created quite a furor at the time, and he received considerable attention from the press of the country for his stand for legislative purity. Mr. Baker was also severely criticised and ridiculed at the time, but the people of Rochester who knew him never questioned his motives or integrity.
Besides the faithful wife, four children survive: Mrs. India KILMER and Miss Pearl BAKER, of this city; Mr. Archie BAKER of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs. Belle MONTGOMERY, of UVALDA, Texas. Four brothers and three sisters are also living, all whom reside in Virginia, except James BAKER, of Pittsburgh, Penn.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Monday, March 22, 1909
The body of Hon. A. BAKER arrived in Rochester, today, over the Erie at 1:35 o'clock from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The funeral will be held at the Baker residence Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and the services will be conducted by Rev. C. H. DEVOE, of Peru. The funeral will be in charge of the Masons. Friends may view the body at anytime Wednesday morning.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs - 1908-1910
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Thursday, March 18, 1909
Hon. Ananias BAKER died at Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening, of tubercular trouble.
Mr. Baker became afflicted with tuberculosis some little while ago, and with characteristic energy put up a game fight against the ravages of the disease by erecting an out door tent in which he lived for some time. About a month ago he went to New Mexico hoping the climate would benefit his health, but the trip proved fruitless and death came up him in a strange land. Mrs. Baker made the trip with him and was at the bedside when he passed away.
The body will be shipped to Rochester for burial and will arrive some time Saturday, after which the funeral arrangements will be made.
Ananias Baker was a Virginian by birth, being born in a one-room log cabin near Strausburg, Virgina, January 9, 1848. He was the son of Abraham and Terzah BAKER, both of whom are dead. He attended school for a few years in a log school house and later took several terms in a subscription school.
At the age of 21 he left home for Ohio where he started life for himself as a book agent traveling through Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois. In 1872 he came to Fulton county where he met Miss T.M. HOLDER to whom he was married in December of that year. Here he took up the business at which he rapidly accumulated a comfortable fortune.
He was a member and moving spirit in the Christian church, a Mason and an Odd Fellow.
Politically, Mr. Baker was for years an active democrat, but later joined the Republican party, and in 1904 was elected to the state legislature as the representative of Cass and Fulton counties. While in the legislature Mr. Baker achieved a prominence that seldom comes to a legistor by reason of his activity in behalf of the passage of the cigarette law and his exposure of the corrupt methods of the tobacco trust in attempted briber. Mr. Baker's exposure created quite a furor at the time, and he received considerable attention from the press of the country for his stand for legislative purity. Mr. Baker was also severely criticised and ridiculed at the time, but the people of Rochester who knew him never questioned his motives or integrity.
Besides the faithful wife, four children survive: Mrs. India KILMER and Miss Pearl BAKER, of this city; Mr. Archie BAKER of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs. Belle MONTGOMERY, of UVALDA, Texas. Four brothers and three sisters are also living, all whom reside in Virginia, except James BAKER, of Pittsburgh, Penn.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Monday, March 22, 1909
The body of Hon. A. BAKER arrived in Rochester, today, over the Erie at 1:35 o'clock from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The funeral will be held at the Baker residence Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and the services will be conducted by Rev. C. H. DEVOE, of Peru. The funeral will be in charge of the Masons. Friends may view the body at anytime Wednesday morning.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs - 1908-1910
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Thursday, March 18, 1909
Hon. Ananias BAKER died at Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening, of tubercular trouble.
Mr. Baker became afflicted with tuberculosis some little while ago, and with characteristic energy put up a game fight against the ravages of the disease by erecting an out door tent in which he lived for some time. About a month ago he went to New Mexico hoping the climate would benefit his health, but the trip proved fruitless and death came up him in a strange land. Mrs. Baker made the trip with him and was at the bedside when he passed away.
The body will be shipped to Rochester for burial and will arrive some time Saturday, after which the funeral arrangements will be made.
Ananias Baker was a Virginian by birth, being born in a one-room log cabin near Strausburg, Virgina, January 9, 1848. He was the son of Abraham and Terzah BAKER, both of whom are dead. He attended school for a few years in a log school house and later took several terms in a subscription school.
At the age of 21 he left home for Ohio where he started life for himself as a book agent traveling through Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois. In 1872 he came to Fulton county where he met Miss T.M. HOLDER to whom he was married in December of that year. Here he took up the business at which he rapidly accumulated a comfortable fortune.
He was a member and moving spirit in the Christian church, a Mason and an Odd Fellow.
Politically, Mr. Baker was for years an active democrat, but later joined the Republican party, and in 1904 was elected to the state legislature as the representative of Cass and Fulton counties. While in the legislature Mr. Baker achieved a prominence that seldom comes to a legistor by reason of his activity in behalf of the passage of the cigarette law and his exposure of the corrupt methods of the tobacco trust in attempted briber. Mr. Baker's exposure created quite a furor at the time, and he received considerable attention from the press of the country for his stand for legislative purity. Mr. Baker was also severely criticised and ridiculed at the time, but the people of Rochester who knew him never questioned his motives or integrity.
Besides the faithful wife, four children survive: Mrs. India KILMER and Miss Pearl BAKER, of this city; Mr. Archie BAKER of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs. Belle MONTGOMERY, of UVALDA, Texas. Four brothers and three sisters are also living, all whom reside in Virginia, except James BAKER, of Pittsburgh, Penn.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Monday, March 22, 1909
The body of Hon. A. BAKER arrived in Rochester, today, over the Erie at 1:35 o'clock from Albuquerque, New Mexico. The funeral will be held at the Baker residence Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and the services will be conducted by Rev. C. H. DEVOE, of Peru. The funeral will be in charge of the Masons. Friends may view the body at anytime Wednesday morning.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs - 1908-1910
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
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