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Benjamin Baker & S. W. Baker    

BENJAMIN BAKER (deceased) was a native of Rensselaer county, N.Y.. born December 3, 1794. He came to Potter county, Penn., in 1838, and settled in Ulysses township, where he lived until his death. He married Miss Mabala Cronk, of Hoosick Falls, N. Y., and they had a family of nine children George B, died at Ulysses in 1887; Andrew, lives on the old homestead; Phoebe, died in 1864; Esther, the wife of L. G. Gridley; William, died in infancy; S. W., lives on his farm at Lymansville; Hiram, died in 1888; Russell, lives in Nebraska, and Mary, the widow of John Stanley, lives at Cambridge, N. Y.

S. W. BAKER, the fourth son of the family above named, was born at Williamstown, Mass., April 24, 1836, and was two years old when his parents moved to Potter county. He worked on the farm with his father until twenty-one years old, when he went to Port Jervis, N. Y., where he lived nine years. In 1866 he returned to Ulysses, and lived on the old homestead several years. In 1872 he worked at lumbering and in 1875 bought a farm near Lymansville, where he has since lived. Mr. Baker was married in October, 1862, to Bertha L. Covey, of Broome county, N. Y., and they have one son, named Benjamin S.

History of the counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania: with biographical selections, including their early settlement and development, a description of the historic and interesting localities, sketches of their cities, towns and villages, portraits of prominent men, biographies of representative citizens, outline history of Pennsylvania, statistics. Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1890, pages 1143-1144 View the image of this page on line!  Free Trial  More Potter County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.

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