Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Baker, Theodore W. November 8, 1855 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

THEODORE W. BAKER, who has served acceptably as clerk of the 
town council of Norristown since 1889, is the son of 
Cornelius S. Baler, M. D., and Elizabeth (Feaster) Baker. 
Dr. Baker was a familiar figure in Norristown for many 
years, his tall and erect form and dignified bearing being 
still well remembered by the older residents of the county 
seat. He came to Montgomery county in 1854 and settled in 
Norristown, where he kept a drugstore, the business since 
his death in 1882 having been conducted by the firm of Baker 
& Grady, in which Theodore W. Baker is the senior partner, 
his associate being ex-Burgess George W. Grady. Dr. 
Cornelius S. Baker had seven children, three sons and four 
daughters, as follows: John S., a member of the town council 
of Norristown for a number of years; Kate, wife of James A. 
Curtis, of Baltimore; Aaron F., a well-known railroad 
contractor of Norristown; Mary F., wife of John T. Dyer, 
also of Norristown; Theodore W. Baker, and Miss Carrie E. 
Baker, both of Norristown. Dr. Cornelius Baker's wife 
survived him one year, dying in 1883. Both were members of 
the First Presbyterian church, he being long a valued elder 
therein. During the war of the rebellion, Dr. Baker was 
medical examiner at Norristown.

Theodore W. Baker, who was born in Norristown, November 8, 
1855, has been all his life a resident of the place, 
attending its public schools. At the close of school life he 
became a clerk in the drug store of his father, where he 
acquired a thorough knowledge of the business. He then went 
to Philadelphia, where he occupied a similar position in the 
establishment of Romberger & Long, wholesale dry-goods 
dealers, for several years. Entering the store of John 
Wanamaker, he continued there for six nears. Close attention 
to business and the confinement and lack of exercise 
consequent upon an indoor occupation having somewhat 
impaired his health, he recuperated following an outdoor 
calling-railroad contracting-for several years. Returning to 
Norristown, he re-entered the drug store, and has remained 
there ever since-a period of twenty years or more, a great 
part of which time he has officiated as clerk of town 
council, by successive elections every year, he having 
performed the duties of that position ably, intelligently, 
and in a manner satisfactory to all concerned.
 
On December 26, 1882, Mr. Baker married Miss Sue D. Hitner, 
daughter of Harry Hitner, of Marble Hall. Mrs. Baker was a 
member of an old family in the lower end of Montgomery 
county, their ancestor being of German origin. The couple 
have one daughter, Edith H. Baker.

Mr. Baker is a member of the Presbyterian church; Mrs. Baker 
and her daughter are Lutherans. Mr. Baker is a member of 
Charity Lodge, No. 190, Free and Accepted Masons, and of 
Norristown Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He has been a member 
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for nearly a quarter 
of a century, and is past grand of his lodge. He also 
belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men. Politically he is 
a Republican, and takes an active interest in the success of 
the party to which he belongs, having been on the election 
board of his district a number of years. He resides at 543 
George street, where he owns a handsome residence.

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