Floyd Perry Baker - Orinda Searle
John Baker's descendants
| b. 11/16/1820 | Ft. Ann, NY |
| d. 5/27/1909 | Topeka, KS |
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| b. 1826 | Ft. Plain, NY |
| d. 6/14/1910 | Topeka, KS |
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Hamburg, NY
Hillsdale, MI
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Troy, NY
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Comstock, NY
Troy, NY
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Troy, NY
Troy, NY
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Troy, NY
Racine, WI
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Racine, WI
Racine, WI
Racine, WI
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Hilo, HI
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Between the ages
of 8 and 18, Floyd lived with Mathias Whitney, a farmer of Fort
Ann, where he went to school during a three month winter term and worked
on the farm the rest of the year.
Floyd taught school in Hamburg, Erie County, NY for six months.
Floyd set up a blacksmith shop. (A
blacksmith selling a horseshoe to a boy, a
blacksmith with his hammer.)
Floyd returned to New York and became an agent for a line of packet
boats on the Champlain Canal. He was also agent for the winter
stage line between Albany and Whitehall, then a part of the route between
New York and Montreal.
Floyd and Eliza Wilson were married.
"became an Odd Fellow in 1844, and has been at the head of the order
in Kansas, being Grand Master in 1862, and represented the order in Kansas
in the Grand Lodge of the United States in 1867"
Floyd joined the Masons.
Floyd took a contract to build a section of two miles on the Hudson
River Railroad (begun in 1842). The work used up his savings
and left him deeply in debt.
Floyd P. Baker, Jr. was born (he died
in 1853).
Floyd and his family moved to Racine, Racine County, WI, where
he ran a farm and an insurance buisness.
Eliza Baker died.
Floyd and Orinda Searle were married.
Albert Searle Baker was born (and
died within the year).
Floyd and his family headed for Hawaii. They traveled down the
Mississippi by boat to New Orleans, where Floyd P. Baker, Jr. died (1853).
His parents continued on to Panama, to San Francisco, and then to Hawaii,
where they arrived in June, 1853. (Mark Twain spent several months in
Hawaii - then known as the Sandwich Islands - in 1866 and wrote
and spoke
about his observations. A PBS
site offers pictures.)
Floyd
was appointed crown attorney and clerk of the district court of the Hawaiian
Islands. He and Orinda moved to Hilo.
Nestor
Reuben Baker was born outside Hilo in the crater of an extinct
volcano where his parents were quarantined due to risk of smallpox.
| m. 1874 | Jennette Carico | |
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Clifford Coan Baker was born.
| m. | Harriet Eager | |
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| m. 1883 | Mary Dupuy | Bay City, MI |
| d. 1932 | NY | |
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Topeka, KS
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Floyd and his family moved to Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. He had purchased an interest in the Kansas State Record and was affiliated with the paper until 1871, when he retired.
| m. 1884 | Henry Sharp | Bay City, MI |
| d. 1933 | Brookline, MA | |
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Paris, France
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Floyd was the Assistant Commissioner to the World's Fair in Paris, France, where he made a report on the subject of Forestry. While in Europe, he visited Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Ireland, and Scotland.
Floyd was appointed as a commissioner of the Foresters' Bureau of the federal Agricultural Department. "appointed one of the Commissioners of the Foresters' Bureau of the Agricultural Department of the United States Government at Washington, and assigned duty in the Mississippi Valley, and west to the Rocky Mountains"
Sources:
- William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas (Shawnee County section). A. T. Andreas, Chicago, 1883.
- "Short Notes on the Baker Family: Clark, Comstock, Baxter, Chaffee, Brown, and Mason," compiled by George Comstock Baker, LL.M. (1896).
- Baker family genealogy (Colleen Mielke).
- Family papers in possession of Constance Baker Bowen.