Harry C. Blair collection on Edward D. Baker [manuscript], circa 1845-1952.
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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...
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...
Blair, Harry C., 1891-1975,
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Edward Dickinson Baker was born in London, England on Feb. 24, 1811. From the guide to the Harry C. Blair collection on Edward D. Baker, circa 1845-1952, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Harry Blair (1891-1977) was an orthopedic surgeon and biographer. From the description of Harry Blair papers [manuscript], 1950-1977. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 749938873 From the guide to the Harry Blair papers, 1950-19...
