Biography of James Baker, pages 513 / 514.  History De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

James Baker, farmer and stock-raiser, Concord Township, was born in Bedford 
County, Pa., Sept. 28, 1814, a son of Joseph and Nancy (Smith) Baker.  
When he was seven years of age his parents moved to Adams County, Pa., where 
his mother died two years later.  He then lived with relatives till fifteen 
years of age, and then began to take care of himself, working by the month 
till his majority.  He was married Dec. 22, 1842, to Barbara Rummel, a 
native of Adams County, Pa., daughter of John and Barbara (Demer) Rummel.  
After his marriage he lived four years in Franklin County, Pa., and in the 
fall of 1847 moved to Ashland County, Ohio, and a year later to DeKalb 
County, Ind., where he bought eighty acres of unimproved land, now owned by 
William Short.  He cleared and improved this land, living on it till 
February, 1869, when he sold it and bought the farm where he now lives, 
which contains 148 acres of land all under cultivation.  Mr. and Mrs. Baker 
have had nine children---Mary E., Daniel, Susan, William, Henry, Jacob, 
Sarah, Joseph, and John.  In politics Mr. Baker is a Republican.  He and 
his wife are members of the Lutheran Church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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