Kit Carson County, Colorado
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Charles E. Baker , 8 South 42 West
 


Charles claimed a quarter in section 2, 8 South 42 West, Kit Carson County in 1891.

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POSSILE

Charles E. Baker, son of H. S. Baker and Susan Gipple, married Cora Miller, daughter of H. J. Miller and Josephine Hinson on 12 Mar 1889 in Fairgrove, Tuscola County, Michigan.

In 1900 Routt County, Colorado, Charles E. Baker is farming, born September 1862 in New YOrk, married ten years to Coar A. Dec 1868 Michigan. Maude S. April 1890 in Colorado, and farm laborer George Thurston June 1867 in Indiana.

Cora A Miller Baker , born 23 Dec 1868 Fairgrove, Tuscola County, Michigan, , died 18 Jan 1936 Craig, Moffat County, Colorado, , buried Craig Cemetery Craig, Moffat County, Colorado, PLOT Section F42, Plot 5 FindAGrave # 28476393.


Charles Edward Baker , born 9 Sep 1862 Lancaster, Erie County, New York, , died 25 Dec 1945 Yucaipa, San Bernardino County, California, , buried Montecito Memorial Park Colton, San Bernardino County, California, FindAGrave # 139481276.

"Born with a love of adventure, whether by inheritance from his ancestors or from the harmonious union of his own individual characteristics, Charles E. Baker, a prominent and successful ranchman of Routt county, and proprietor of the Baker House at Craig, one of the best known and most appreciated hostelries of the Western slope of this state, has through life followed his bent, and in doing so has found abundant gratification for his taste in rambling in many parts of our country and meeting various phases of frontier life, with its attendant dangers and privations, and at the same time has used the opportunities thus afforded him to his own advantage and greatly to the benefit of the sections where he has lived. He was born on September 10, 1862, at Lancaster, Erie county, New York, twelve miles east of the city of Buffalo, on a farm which became the home of his parents, Horace S. and Susan E. Baker, when but five acres of it were cleared for cultivation, and on which the father died in 1894, and the mother is still living. His father grew to maturity and on reaching his legal majority he could have bought land which is now well within the city limits of Buffalo and covered the buildings of great value at two dollars and a half an acre, but he did not invest, because it was all swampy and the chance of its growing into value was remote, and at that time seemed highly improbable in his lifetime. Mr. Baker received a good academic education at the Clarence Academy near his home, and followed it with a special course of thorough training in penmanship in Michigan, having mastered in his academic career the ordinary English branches, science and bookkeeping, as far as they were then taught in the school he attended. His mind is eminently practical and combines good business faculties with the power of scholastic attainments, and the imagination that has impelled him to seek adventures and a wide knowledge of the country, and the qualities of self-reliance and resourcefulness which make him equal to any emergency and ready to get the most out of any opportunity that presents itself in the way of business or enjoyment. At an early age he developed a great fondness for hunting and when he was but fifteen years of age he bought a shot gun for two dollars and a half, without the knowledge of his parents and much to the alarm of his mother, who said when she found out about his purchase, that it would be the cause of his, died. He was in that period of his life a very venturesome youth, and after visiting Forepaugh’s circus on one occasion he tried some of the trick riding he witnessed in the show, succeeding in standing on a horse’s back and riding it for a distance of two hundred or three hundred yards, to a point where the animal jumped from the grassy roadside to the middle of the road and threw the rider on his head. From boyhood he had a burning desire to come west to follow his favorite occupation of hunting and trapping, believing he could make a fortune at the business. His parents opposed his desire vigorously, and at the age of sixteen he determined to run away from home to gratify it; and by way of preparation he rolled up a bundle of clothes and supplies for his journey. But when night approached, and he realized the difficulty of finding a safe and suitable place at which to pass the night, and impelled also by filial regard for his parents and their wishes, he quietly unrolled his bundle and determined to remain at home a while longer. Lest fear should be accounted his chief cause for giving up his design, it should be recorded that he was a very conscientious youth, with a sense of obedience to the commands of his parents as his ruling impulse. One evening at this period of his life at home, he told his mother an untruth which so worried him that he was unable to sleep the greater part of the night, and hung like a pall on his spirits all next morning. At dinner he burst out crying and confessed his error, and then his sky cleared and became bright with sunshine once more. After leaving school he became a clerk in a large store; but not liking the business, at the end of six months he took charge of a school of eighty-six pupils, which he taught to the end of the term for that year. He then put in two summers gardening for the Buffalo markets, but finding one of the seasons too dry and the other too wet for profitable gardening, he determined to seek a more certain and remunerative employment, and went to Tuscola county, Michigan, and in less than a month was again clerking in a store, and soon afterward was teaching school in his new location. He had as a pupil in his school a young lady named Miss Cora A. Miller, with whom he fell in love, and at the end of the second term they were engaged to be married. Being troubled with catarrh and learning of the beneficial effects of the climate of Colorado to sufferers from that and kindred complaints, he came to this state, promising to return for his bride in five years. His first winter in Colorado, that of 1884-5, he passed as principal of the public school at Castle Rock, and at the close of the school year located in Routt county, where he took up a body of ranch land. A number of subsequent winters were spent in teaching school and the summers in improving and developing his ranch. In the spring of 1889 he returned to Michigan, and on March 14th of that year he was married at Kintner, that state, to Miss Miller, who came with him to Colorado soon afterward and has ever since been a resident of the land of incalculable mineral wealth, boundless plains, varied industries, unprofitable sage brush and almost perennial sunshine. There was only one white woman besides Mrs. Baker within a radius of ten miles of her home when she came hither and the nearest doctor was twenty miles distant. But she was inured to frontier life and met its hazards and hardships with a resolute and cheerful spirit. Her grandfather cut a trail fourteen miles through the forest to his Michigan land when he located on it, and there she was reared amid the scenes and experiences of the wilderness, acquiring therefrom the courage and self-dependence characteristic of and requisite on the frontier. Since the marriage she has in all respects done her part faithfully and diligently to advance the common interest of herself and her husband, proving herself a helpmeet in word and deed in his every trial and difficulty. They have one daughter, Maud S., who was born at Hahn’s Peak on April 25, 1890, twenty-five miles from a doctor and snowshoeing being necessary for fifteen miles of that distance. In the fall of 1889 Mr. Baker was elected county clerk and recorder, and at the end of his term in 1891 declined a second nomination because the last preceding legislature had passed a salary and fee law of which he did not approve. He has always adhered to the Republican party, but it has been his invariable custom to vote for the men he considered best for the offices for which they were nominated without regard to party claims. While not a believer in fraternal societies, regarding them as more detrimental than beneficial to men in the main, he belongs to the Woodmen of the World because of the beneficial features of the organization. He was reared in the faith of the Church of the Disciples, but has broadened his views to the belief that men should be judged by their daily walk and conversation rather than by their church affiliations and professions. After leaving the office of county clerk and recorder, Mr. Baker settled on his ranch on Fortification creek, and found he had an expensive property to develop, as a long ditch and large reservoir were required to irrigate the land to productiveness. These he built at considerable expense of labor and money, but his enterprise has been rewarded by securing to him one of the best range properties in the county. In addition to this ranch and the extensive horse business which it supports, Mr. Baker operates two mail lines, and conducts the Baker House at Craig. This hotel has an excellent reputation and is especially favored by those modern knights errant, the commercial tourists, who find in it a comfortable home for such time as they can spend there, with a table unsurpassed in range and excellence of provision, good rooms well furnished and a genial and obliging landlord and landlady, who are always solicitous for the substantial comfort and best interests of their guests. Their own experience in privation and danger, in toil and perseverance, have given them an impressive knowledge of the wants of the traveling public, and they lay all their resources under tribute to provide for those wants in ample measure and the best style attainable under the circumstances. In working out the past progress of Routt county they have done well their utmost in several lines of active usefulness, and in the new day of increased railroad facilities and other advantages now opening for this region it is not to be doubted that they will reap the reward of their fidelity. [Source: Progressive Men of Western Colorado, Publ 1905. Transcribed by Kim Mohler] "

Maude Susan Baker Eldredge , born 26 Apr 1890 Routt County, Colorado, , died 1 Apr 1990 Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, , buried Craig Cemetery Craig, Moffat County, Colorado, PLOT Section F42, Plot 5 FindAGrave # 28612335. If Maude was born in Grand Junction, it is not likely that Charles had been in Kit Carson County.


NOT TOO LIKELY

August 31, 1906 Goodland, Kansas "C. E. Baker, the night operator, left saturday to visit his Mother, who sin Chicago. He was very anxious to attend another ice cream social before he left. We wonder Why."

POSSIBLY

In 1880 Barton County, Missouri, Samuel Baker is 40, Lucinda Baker 35 Wife, Charles E. Baker 14 Son, Mary A. Baker 12 Daughter, Elnora Baker 9 Daughter, Martha E. Baker 7 Daughter, and John W. Baker 4 Son.

Peter K. Baker, Addie's father, and Sarah A. Sage married on 23 Jul 1865 in Jackson County, Missouri.

In 1880 Jackson County, P. K. Baker is farming, 58, Catherine Baker 34 Wife, Liddie A. Baker 14 Daughter, Elisabeth Baker 13 Daughter, Hannah Baker 11 Daughter, and Addie B. Baker 9 Daughter.

Peter K. Baker , born ABT 1822 Pennsylvania , died 19 FEB. 1889 Jackson County, Missouri.

Addie's sister was in Walden, Colorado in 1910, Anna L. (Liddie) Gresham 44, married (but later in Walden census was divorced), Elizabeth Gresham 6 Daughter, John L. Gresham 2 Son, Ode Duncan 19 Servant, and Newton G. Bellaires 24 Boarder.

In August 1917 L. Anna Gresham claimed 80 acres in township 9 North 79 West, Jackson County, Colorado

September 1926 "Miss Elizabeth Gresham, a student at the Boulder University, who passed the summer vacation with her mother at the Gresham hotel, has returned to her studies at the university, leaving here Sunday morning. Miss Gresham will graduate from the university nt the close of the spring term, having completed four years of study.
Mrs. L. A. Grewham of the Gresham hotel is confined to her room with a severe cold."

Lydia Angeline Gresham , born 1866 , died 1941 , buried Walden Cemetery Walden, Jackson County, Colorado, FindAGrave # 95519329.

Sarah Elizabeth Casady, born 18 Feb 1904 in Colorado, died 15 Jan 1980 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, Father David Franklin Gresham Mother Lydia Angeline Baker.
" CASADY, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth, 75, Fairview Drive, died Tuesday. Services 3 p.m. Friday at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Walden, Colorado. Burial, Walden Cemetery.
Survivors: daughter, Mary Ann Friedman of Austin; brother, John L. Gresham of Walden, sister, Mrs. Bessie Kerr of Longmont, four grandchildren. "
Walden Cemetery Walden, Jackson County, Colorado, FindAGrave # 95518725.

CHARLES AND ADDIE

Charles E. Baker married Addie Baker on 26 Feb 1888 in Jackson County, Missouri.

Fred LeRoy Baker was born in Denver on March 1, 1891.

If the Charles E. Baker who claimed a quarter in township 9 North 90 WEst in 1891 is this one, then he is probably not the Kit Carson County one.

In 1900 Walden, Larimer County, Colorado, Charles Baker is a ranch manager, 33, born in Illinois, Addie Baker 27 Wife born in Missouri, Fred L. Baker 9 Son, Bessie Baker 7 Daughter, Charles L. Baker 1 Son, Christ Martin 18 Servant, Arthur W. Cox 30 Servant, and Ira Cunningham 18 Servant.

In 1910 Fort Collins, Charles Baker 44 is a road work contractor, Addie Baker 44 Wife, Fred L. Baker 19 Son, Bessie Baker 17 Daughter, Leonord Baker 11 Son, Lillie Baker 7 Daughter, and Lucinda F. Baker 3 Daughter .

Lucinda Jane Simpson Baker , born 2 Oct 1839 Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, , died 8 Dec 1920,, buried El Dorado Springs Cemetery El Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri, FindAGrave # 44697722.


Samuel Baker , born 12 Dec 1838 Burbank, Wayne County, Ohio, , died 4 Mar 1924 El Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri, , buried El Dorado Springs Cemetery El Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri, FindAGrave # 44697724.

March 13, 1924 " Word has been received that Charles Baker's father is dead at his home in Missouri."
Samuel Baker, born December 12, 1838 in Ohio, a farmer, died in Eldorado Springs, Missouri on March 4, 1924, to be buried in the city cemetery. The informant was J.W. Baker.


August 4, 1926 Steamboat Springs

October 19, 1927


February 1926 Walden " Word has been received that Len Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baker, was married to Brighton girl a short time ago, making his fourth try for a perfect helpmate."
" Two weeks ago we made an error in stating that Len Baker, who had recently been married, had made three previous attempts at securing the perfect helpmate. Mrs. John Peterson. Mr. Baker's sister, informs us that her brother’s marriuge in Brighton the first of this month was his second venture onto the battlefield of matrimony, instead of his fourth. We are glad to make this correction."

POSSIBLY

Charles E. Baker , born ABT 1860 Mad River Township, Champaign County, Ohio.

In 1860 Champaign County, David Baker is 34, E. S. Baker 32, Julia A. Baker 10, W. W. Baker 8, E. F. Baker 5, Sarah C. Baker 2, and C. E. Baker 4/12.

In 1870 Neosho County, Kansas, David R. Baker is 46, Elizabeth Baker 42, Julia A. Baker, Sarah C. Baker 13, Charles E. Baker 10, Obry F. Baker 8, Dora E. Baker 4, and David Baker 1/12.

Elizabeth Susan Taylor , born 1828 Kentucky , died 1871 Erie, Neosho, Kansas.

Charlott C. Burrows and David R. Baker married on 25 Apr 1872 in Neosho County, Kansas.

Charlotte Burrows had been in Evansville, Indiana in 1870, a dressmaker, 39, John Burrows 19, Elizabeth Burrows 10, Oliver Burrows 4, and Charles Burrows 2.
She had received a widow's pension in 18??, for George W. Burrows service as a Navy assistant engineer, and a minor's pension in November 1890.
George W. Burrows , born 1822 Pennsylvania, , died 28 APR 1870 Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana.

In 1880 Cherokee County, Kansas, D. R. Baker is 56, C. S. Baker 45 Wife, Ott Baker 18 Son, O. B. "Burooks" 14 Son, and Charly Burooks 11 Son, both born in Indiana.

In 1880 Neosho County, Cyrus Webb 40 Self Julia Webb 30 Wife Gertrud Webb 8 Daughter Harry Webb 6 Son Ina Baker 14 Sister-in-law.

Charlotte Sarah Snook Burrows , born 1827 Prince Edward Island, Canada , died 1895 Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, , buried Oakwood Cemetery Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, Show MapGPS-Latitude: 37.3338993, Longitude: -95.2423956 FindAGrave # 35998542.


Mike Baker claimed a quarter in section 26, 8S 42W in 1896.

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