C. C. BAKER

BAKER, BISHOP

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/6/2009 at 10:29:09

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

C. C. BAKER, farmer and stock dealer, Sec. 5; P. O. Unionville; born in Hawkins Co., Tenn., in 1834; when 24 years of age, went to Texas, traveling by water, and was two months on the way, landing at Galveston; thence to Liberty and Livingstone; thence to Sabine Pass, where he remained thirty days; thence to Alexander, La., on Red River; then returned to New Orleans; thence to Keokuk, Iowa, and to Unionville in May 1857, where he engaged in carpenter work until Dec. 27, 1857, when he married Miss L. J. Bishop, daughter of William W. Bishop (deceased), then living where they now reside; she was born in Lee Co., Va., only five miles from where he was born, in 1839; they have two children - Nancy J., born in 1862, and Martha E., born in 1874. Democratic; Mr. and MRs. Baker and daughter are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, organized at Unionville in 1852, Mr. Baker being Deacon of same; has held the office of Township Assessor two years; has been on the School Board for ten years; is Township Trustee, a member of A.F.&A.M., 119, Unionville; has 230 acres of land, valued at $20 per acre; he with A.J. Morrison, of Unionville, has for five years handled an average of over eighty cars of stock per year; when married, had but a carpet-sack and $400.