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American Biography of the Nineteenth
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1902.

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BAKER, WILLIAM H., educator, lawyer, congressman, was
born Jan. 17, 1827, in Lenox, N. Y. He removed with his
parents to Oswego county in 1829, and received his
education at the common schools. He became a mechanic
and then a school teacher; studied law, and came to the bar
in 1851. In 1862 was elected district attorney for Oswego county;
re-elected in 1866, and in 1874 was chosen a representative
from New York to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected
to the forty-fifth congress.