"Ned" Baker : friend of Lincoln [manuscript], 1965.
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Baker, Edward Dickinson, 1811-1861
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Born in London in 1811 to schoolteacher Edward Baker and Lucy Dickinson Baker, poor but educated Quakers, the boy Edward Baker and his family left England and emigrated to the United States in 1816, arriving in Philadelphia, where Baker's father established a school. Ed attended his father's school before quitting to apprentice as a loom operator in a weaving factory. In 1825, the family left Philadelphia and traveled to New Harmony, Indiana, a utopian community on the Ohio River led by Robert O...
Stewart, Edgar I.
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Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861) was a Senator from Oregon, 1860-1861, and friend of Abraham Lincoln. From the guide to the "Ned" Baker : friend of Lincoln, 1965, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861) was a Senator from Oregon, 1860-1861, and friend of Abraham Lincoln. The town of Baker, Oregon, is named for him. He was killed in the Civil War at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in 1861, becoming the only sitting...
