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American Biography of the Nineteenth
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BAKER, WILLIAM, educator, lawyer, congressman, was
born April 29, 1831, in Washington county, Pa. He was
brought up on a farm and graduated from Waynesburg
College in 1856. He followed teaching as a profession a
number of years, and while teaching studied law and was
admitted to the bar. For the last thirteen years he has been
engaged in farming and stock raising in Lincoln county, Kans.;
and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth
congresses.