Dr. R.F. Baker

BAKER, KENT

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 2/14/2015 at 14:14:51

DR. R.F. BAKER.

At 10 o'clock last evening Dr. R. F. Baker expired after only a short illness. He was taken sick on last Thursday with influenza, which developed into pneumonia. He had been feeling badly for some time before, having a very severe cold.

Dr. Baker was born in Jefferson, Clinton county, Indiana, July 6, 1831. He received a collegiate education in Wabash college, Indiana, and afterwards graduated from a Homeopathic Medical college in Cincinnati. He took a through surgical course in the Belleview hospital, New York. He then went to Ohio where he practiced medicine for about five years, and then concluded to come west. He settled in Moline and practiced there for nine or ten years and then came to Davenport where he has lived sever since--21 years. He was a surgeon in the 1821 Illinois Volunteers Company H., during the war. In 1868 he was married in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He leaves, with his wife, two children to mourn his death, Robert D., at home and Mrs. A.H. Kent, of Grinnell, Kan.

Dr. Baker was one of our most respected citizens and physicians and his death will be a great loss to the community. He was a senior warden of Trinity Lodge No. ??3, and always took an active interest in Masonry. The doctor had hosts of friends in the city and his sudden death will be a great shock to them. He had a large practice and to his patients he was not only a physician but a sincere friend and counselor and many a sick person was cheered by his kind words and sympathetic manner. The funeral will be announced later.

Source: Davenport Daily Republican, Davenport, IA. 29 Jan 1890, p. 3.

Died.

BAKER--Tuesday, January 28, at 10 p.m. Dr. R.F. Baker, of pneumonia, in the 60th year of his age.

Funeral this, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the family residence, No. 115 East 8th street.

Source: Davenport Daily Republican, Davenport, IA. 30 Jan 1890, p. 3.