Baker, Daniel

BAKER, YOUNG

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 12/10/2012 at 12:29:35

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

BAKER, DANIEL - Bear Creek Twp - pg 822. Farmer, section 33, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1842, and was there raised until he attained his seventeenth year, when he went to Sauk county, Wisconsin, and remained until 1862, when he enlisted in company K, Twenty-third Wisconsin infantry (better known as the Sauk County Rangers). He was in the battles of Champion - s Hill, siege of Vicksburg, Carrion Crow Bayou, and many other hard fought battles; was in all engagements that his regiment participated in; was one of the surviving two of his company at Carrion Crow Bayou, the rest being killed or wounded; had many narrow escapes. He was honorably discharged at Mobile, Alabama, in 1864, and returned to his home in Wisconsin, where he was married, in 1868, to Miss Sarah A. Young, a daughter of William Young, formerly of Richland county, Ohio, but moved to Sauk county in 1849. Their family now consists of five children: Mary Isabella, John L., Ira A., Walter G. and Lawrence W. Lost one, an infant. In 1869 he moved to his present location, where he owns a nice farm of 160 acres of well cultivated land, and is engaged in stock-raising quite extensively. He is numbered among the thrifty, energetic men of the county.