Luke Baker

BAKER, SHOESMITH, GILES

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Date: 5/13/2009 at 11:23:53

1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

page 716

LUKE BAKER, a farmer of Greeley
Township, has been a resident of the
State of Iowa since he was twelve years
of age. He is a native of Stephenson County,
Illinois, and was born January 23, 1859.
His parents are Richard and Fannie (Shoe-
smith) Baker, natives of England, who emi-
grated to America, and now reside in Guth-
rie County, Iowa. Mr. Baker was married
February 25, 1885, to Miss Laura A. Giles,
a daughter of Salem and Sophlana Giles.
Mrs. Baker was born in Henry County, Illi-
nois, April 27, 1858. One child has been
born of this marriage - Ada R. In 1884
Mr. Baker came to Audubon County and
settled on his farm. In 1882 he had purchased
120 acres of wild land in Greeley Township,
upon which he has made many valuable im-
provements. He has a good two-story frame
residence, and all his surroundings are indic-
ative of prosperity. Although a young man
Mr. Baker has a good foothold in the county,
and we anticipate for him a successful future.
In politics he supports the issues of the Re-
publican party. He is the present trustee of
the township, and has served as road super-
visor. He devotes himself to farming and
stock-raising, and is numbered with the fore-
most farmers of Greeley Township.