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from HISTORY OF WYANDOT COUNTY
by Leggett, Conaway & Co., 1884
JOB BAKER is a native of Seneca County, Ohio, and son of Richard and Fannie (Wheeler) Baker, natives of New York State. He was born March 27, 1843. His parents were married in Steuben County, N. Y., and migrated to Ohio in 1835, settling in Seneca County, where they reared a family of six sons - Silas, Frank, Job, Gratton H., Ralph W. and Richard W. The parents are still living. In 1865, Mr. Baker purchased 140 acres in Crawford County, and lived upon this farm till 1873. He then sold out and purchased 210 acres in this township [Sycamore], adding 40 acres a few years later. In 1872, he purchased 210 acres in Seneca County, now owning 460 acres, valued at $100 per acre. He has always devoted his attention to farming and stock-raising, and has met with admirable success. He keeps some thoroughbred short-horn cattle, and good grades of stock generally. At the age of eighteen, Mr. Baker enlisted in Company B, Forty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the service. He participated in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Green River, and other minor engagements, receiving his discharge in August, 1863. He resumed work on the farm the same year, and has since been thus engaged, dealing more or less in stock. Mr. Baker was married November 14, 1865, to Eliza Nichols, of Mexico, this county [Wyandot], daughter of Henry M. and Margaret (Lemaster) Nichols, parents and daughter all natives of Barkley (sic) County, W. Va., in which State the former were united in marriage. Her parents came to Ohio in 1842 and settled at Tiffin. In 1851, they removed to Mexico, where the father died January 29, 1879, and where the mother still resides. They had nine children, and seven still survive, namely, John W., Susan E., Ann E., Henry B., Samuel M., Catharine B. and James H. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have six children - Mary P., Maud A., Wheeler H., Mary M., Nora D., and Charles F. Mr. Baker is a member of the Eden Lodge, No. 310 F. & A. M., of Melmore, and also of the Royal Arch, Tiffin, Ohio. He obtained a fair education in the common schools, and spent two years at the Baldwin University [now Baldwin Wallace College], Berea, Ohio. He is a strong Republican and Prohibitionist.
From BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF WYANDOT COUNTY, OHIO
B.F. Bowen, Publisher, Logansport, Indiana, 1902
JOB BAKER
A gallant ex-soldier and one of the most prominent and respected middle-aged farmers of Sycamore township, Wyandot county, Ohio, is Job Baker, who was born in Seneca county, this state, March 27, 1843, and has been a farmer all his life. His parents, Richard Baker and Fannie (Wheeler) Baker, were born in Steuben county, N.Y., on neighboring farms, grew from childhood to maturity as playmates, and were there married in 1836.
Richard Baker first came to Ohio in 1835 and bought four hundred acres of wild land in the woods of Seneca county, then returned to New York, secured as a prize his wife, and at once came back to Seneca county. In due time he cleared off three hundred twenty acres of his land, converting it into one of the finest farms in the county. He was a very influential man in his township, was a Republican in politics after the disintegration of the Whig party, but would never accept a public office. He and his wife were active workers in the Methodist Episcopal church, in the faith of which she passed away in 1887 and he in 1889. They left a family of six children, who were born in the following order: Silas, now farming in Dickerson county, Kan.; Frank, now judge of the petit court, Chicago, Ill., but in 1868-70 prosecuting attorney in Seneca county, Ohio; Job, who is the subject proper of this sketch; Grattan H., farming on the old place in Seneca county; Ralph, a farmer in Decatur county, Iowa; and Richard W., farming in Eden township, Seneca county, Ohio.
Job Baker lived with his parents until his enlistment, August 21, 1861, in Company E, Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he was assigned to the Southwestern army. He bore a brave and faithful part in all the marches, skirmishes and battles in which his regiment was engaged and endured all the hardhsips of a soldier's life with unconquerable fortitude until he received an honorable discharge in September, 1863.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Baker has been graced with seven children, namely: Mary, married to Lincoln Rhodes, of Melmore; Maud, who died in March, 1900, the wife of William Sheets; Wheeler, who served twenty months in Company K, Forty-third U.S. Volunteers, at Manilla, Phillippine Islands; Monroe, a railroad man in Kansas City, Kan.; Nora and Frank, at home; and Fannie, who died in 1892.
After marriage Mr. Baker located in Lykens, Crawford county, Ohio, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and forty acres, on which he resided eight years, when he sold his place and returned to Sycamore township, Wyandot county. He there bought a farm in section 5, on which he lived until 1887, when he again sold out and entered into the grain and elevator business in the village of Sycamore, which he followed for two years. He then purchased his present farm of forty acres, formerly known as the Griffith place, where he is now prospering as a general farmer.
Mr. Baker is an honored member of the F.& A.M., having been made a Mason in Melmore Lodge, No. 310, and is also a member of Jaqueth Post, G.A.R., at Sycamore. His wife is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to the support of which she freely contributes and in the interests of which she neglects no opportunity in promoting. In the social circles of the village and township they hold a high position, their individual merits having won for themselves the unfeigned esteem of the entire community.
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