Jacob A. Baker

            JACOB A. BAKER is the son of Peter and Catharine Baker, of Germany, where Peter was born in 1801, and his wife in 1811, and where they were marri4ed in 1828. In 1849, they emigrated into Whitley County and settled on Section 35, Washington Township, remaining there till he died March 22, 1866, and she November 26, 1869, leaving a family of six children –Peter, Catharine, Jacob A., Elizabeth, Margaret and Mary A. Our subject was born in the old country October 8, 1836, and accompanied his parents to this county, and at their death bought the homestead. July 20, 1871, he married Catharine Gelzleichter born in Germany June 19, 1846, of John and Elizabeth Gelzleichter, who were born in 1811 and 1817, respectively, and who came to Whitely in 1853, where he died in 1867, she moving to Huntington, Ind., where she still lives.

    On his marriage, Jacob A. Baker took his bride home to the old farm, on which they still reside. In 1874, he was elected County Treasurer, and during his term of four years took up his residence at Columbia City, and then returned to his farm, which consists of 120 acres. He also served five years as Township Assessor. He and wife are members of the German Catholic Church, and have had three children –Mary C., Josephine M. and Theresa M. (deceased).

 Source: Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor. Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor. F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1882, page 376.