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Thomas Baker

Birth	:	6 Aug 1833 Bullitt County, Kentucky, USA
Death	:	4 Nov 1903
Burial	:	Colfax Cemetery, Colfax, Whitman County, USA
Coordinate	:	46.8891983, -117.3494034
Plot	:	Block 4, Lot 21, Grave 2
Inscription	:	Father He Giveth His Beloved Sleep
Description	:	THOMAS BAKER One of the esteemed citizens of Colfax, and one who enjoys an enviable standing in society and business, was born in Bullitt county, in the good old state of Kentucky, the date being 1832. When he was eighteen months old his parents, George C. and Elizabeth Baker, took him to Hancock county, Illinois, where he remained until the spring of 1852, employed on his father's farm, after his educational discipline had been completed. He then started with an older brother across the plains to California, in which state he arrived in August, 1852. For ten years thereafter he was... Read More	THOMAS BAKER One of the esteemed citizens of Colfax, and one who enjoys an enviable standing in society and business, was born in Bullitt county, in the good old state of Kentucky, the date being 1832. When he was eighteen months old his parents, George C. and Elizabeth Baker, took him to Hancock county, Illinois, where he remained until the spring of 1852, employed on his father's farm, after his educational discipline had been completed. He then started with an older brother across the plains to California, in which state he arrived in August, 1852. For ten years thereafter he was actively engaged in the attempt to dig wealth out of the earth, and he was one of the number who made the stampede into the Florence mines of Idaho. For one season he mined in that region and for the two following he was similarly engaged in the Boise basin, but he then turned his attention to packing from Umatilla Landing to the mines of Idaho, and still later followed this primitive method of transportation on the routes between Lewiston and these points. Six years were thus spent. In 1870, however, he grew tired of this wild life and decided to come to a more civilized section, so settled at Waitsburg, where for three years he was engaged in the livery business. Eventually he secured a contract to carry the mail from Walla Walla to Pend d'Oreille, a distance of one hundred and seventy-five miles, and in the fulfillment of this agreement he was engaged for the next year, the work being accomplished by the use of ponies. Our subject then leased the old Brown ferry on Snake river, and the same was operated by him until 1875, when he purchased an interest in the livery business of C. B. King, of Colfax, thus becoming identified with the city which has since been his home. He was burned out of that business, then engaged in a grocery line, but again his establishment was consumed by the destroying wrath of the fire demon. He is at present again established in the livery business, but divides his attention between that and the management of his excellent two-hundred-and-forty-acre farm, located a short distance outside of Colfax. He is a thrifty, energetic man, highly esteemed by all as a man of integrity and worth. In Umatilla county, Oregon, in 1875, Mr. Baker married Elizabeth Brown, a native of that state and a member of an honored pioneer family. They have two children, namely: Frank T. and Ida May. "An Illustrated History of Whitman County, state of Washington." San Francisco: W. H. Lever, 1901. p. 414. ================================================

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Latitude: 46.8891983
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Spouse

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Brown Baker

(1855 - 1920)

Children

Frank Thomas Baker

(1877 - 1926)

Ida May Baker True

(1880 - 1970)

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