Universalist clergyman, newspaperman, reformer, b. Concord, N.H. He was ordained a Universalist minister in 1833. He preached for 14 years in lower Canada, Vermont, and New York before coming to Janesville in 1850. One of the five Free Democrats to found Janesville's third newspaper, the Free Press (Jan. 1853), he soon became co-publisher and owner. In the next few years he was connected with the Delavan Messenger (renamed the Northron), the Albany Times, and the Janesville Rock County Republican. He served in Company E, 13th Wisconsin Volunteers (1862-1863). Baker was an early advocate of women's suffrage and a leader of the suffrage convention held in Janesville (Oct. 1867). He published The Spiritualist, magazine of the Wisconsin Association of Spiritualists (1868-1873). A. C. Beckwith, Hist. of Walworth Co. (2 vols., Indianapolis, 1912); Hist. of Rock Co. (Chicago, 1879); WPA MS.Learn More
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