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BAKER, CHARLES SIMEON, soldier, educator, lawyer,
congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1839, in Churchville, N. Y.
He received an academic education; was a teacher in
1856-57; studied law, was admitted to the bar in December,
1860, and has since practiced the profession, except during
the first year of the war, when he served as first lieutenant of
Company E, Twenty-seventh New York volunteers, being
disabled at the first battle of Bull Run. He was a member of
the board of supervisors of Monroe county three years; was a
member of the Rochester board of education two years, and
president thereof the second year. He was a member of the
New York state assembly from the Rochester district in 1879,
1880, 1582; was a member of the state senate of New York
from the twenty-ninth district in 1884-85; and was elected to
the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.