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1902.

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BAKER, JOHN H., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was
born Feb. 28, 1832, in Parma township, N. Y. He removed,
studied law, and commenced practice in Goshen, Ind., in 1857.
He was state senator in 1862; in 1874 was elected a
representative from Indiana to the forty-fourth congress and
was re-elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.