Baker Family.
Biographical notes:
Walla Walla's dynastic Baker family began with Dorsey Syng Baker, known commonly as D.S. He began creating a business empire in the mid-19th century in the Oregon and Washington Territories. Dorsey's energy and financeering dominated considerable business interests in the early days of non-Native American settelment in the Idaho, Oregon, and Washington territories. His progeny kept that pace. Their substantial range of influence has affected many forms of commerce and civc life, to include mercantiling, farming, banking, ranching, milling, railroading, road-building, shipping, manufacturing, brick-making, land-acquisition, politicking, mining, logging, building, water works, utilities, and shaping the foundation and success of Whitman Seminary and Whitman College. Through his lifetime, Dorsey was also the dominant figure in the commercial development of southeastern Washington and, to an extent, northeastern Oregon. Some of the highlights of his business life include the establishment of a flour mill in Union, Oregon, in 1865; co-founding Baker-Boyer Bank in Walla Walla, in 1869; and construction of the first railroad, the Walla Walla and Columbia River Railroad, in the Washington Territory from 1872-1875. All of these ventures are documented in this collection.
From the description of The Baker Family Collection, 1850-1970 (bulk 1850-1948). (Whitman College). WorldCat record id: 664566939
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Subjects:
- Abstracts of title
- Agriculture
- Banking
- Banks and banking
- Banks and banking
- Farm labor
- Land tenure
- Land tenure
- Land titles
- Milling industry, Flour
- Mining
- Railroads
- Real estate business
- Social life and customs
- Utility companies, Rural
- Washington (State)
- Water rights
- Wheat
- Wheat farmers
- Wheat prices
- Wheat reproduction
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Places:
- Mason County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Lincoln County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Washington (State), Eastern (as recorded)
- Milton-Freewater (Or.) (as recorded)
- Washington Territory (as recorded)
- Washington (State) (as recorded)
- Oakland (Or.) (as recorded)
- Columbia County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Walla Walla (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Nez Perce County (Idaho) (as recorded)
- Garfield County (Wash.) History (as recorded)
- Union (Or.) (as recorded)
- Lewiston (Idaho) (as recorded)
- Oregon--Willamette River Valley--History (as recorded)
- Spokane County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Oregon (as recorded)
- Pierce County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Benton County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Whatcome County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Whitman County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Jefferson County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Northwest, Pacific (as recorded)
- King County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Franklin County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Columbia River Interstate Bridge (as recorded)
- Waitsburg (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Moscow (Idaho) (as recorded)
- Chelan County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Bridge of the Gods (Or. and Wash.) (as recorded)
- Spokane (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Walla Walla County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Grant County (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Adams County (Wash.) History (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Portland (Or.) (as recorded)
