THOMAS L. BAKER farmer, Hogan Township, owns eighty acres in Section 26, which is well improved and under a good state of cultivation. He was born on the same section in April 1840, and received a fair education. His father, Thomas Baker, was born in Virginia in 1790; mother, Rachel (Powell) Baker, in Pennsylvania, December 20, 1797. They came to Indiana in an early day and located in Hogan Township, where he farmed all his life, although he was a shoe-maker by trade. The father died in 1853. The mother is still living, and enjoying good health in the town of Wilmington. Thomas L. enlisted in the war, in 1861, in Company D, Third Indiana Cavalry, and served three years and two months. He was wounded in the arm at White Oak Swamps in Virginia, which renders that member almost useless. With the exception of his army experience, he has followed farming all his life. Since the war he has been compelled to farm mostly by proxy on account of his crippled arm. He is an active, energetic man, and devotes a portion of his time and talent to handling stock, at which he is able to secure a good living outside of his farming interest. Mr. Baker was married, Novenber 15, 1866, to Miss Celestia Canfield, a native of Hogan Township, and five children were born to them: Mittie, Ada, Gatch L. and Irena. The family is endowed with considerable natural musical talent, which is being cltivated as a part of their general education.

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Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties
Published: 1885 by F. E. Weakley Page 621