Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Baker, John Q. 1849 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JOHN Q. BAKER,
a comfortably situated farmer of near Newry, is a son of Andrew and Jane
(Fraker) Baker, and was born in Pennsylvania in 1849.  The paternal
grandfather of Mr. Baker was Potter Baker, who died in Bedford county.  He
married and reared a family, and of his children one was Andrew Baker
(father), who was born in Bedford county in 1807.  After attaining his
majority he came to near Newry, where he remained for a few years, and then
removed to Catfish, Pennsylvania.  He was a gunsmith by trade, a democrat in
politics, and a Lutheran in religious belief.  He married Jane Fraker, a
daughter of Andrew Fraker.  Mr. And Mrs. Baker were the parents of seven
children, five sons and two daughters:  William, Elizabeth, Joseph, Thomas,
Charles, Mary, and John Q.
   John Q. Baker was reared on the farm, received his education in the common
schools, and has been engaged in farming ever since.  He assisted his father
for some years on the farm of the latter near Newry, and purchased near the
same place his present farm of fifty-seven acres of land, which was formerly
known as the Ingram hotel stand property.  His farm is well adapted to grain
growing and grazing.  He is a strong democrat in politics, who believes in an
aggressive policy upon the part of his party as the surest means of achieving
success in either county, State or National campaigns.  He is an untiring
worker in whatever he undertakes, and has been very successful in the
management of his farm and business affairs, to which he gives the greater
part of his time and attention.
   Mr. Baker was united in marriage with Clara McClaskey, daughter of William
McClaskey.  Mr. And Mrs. Baker have six children, four sons and two
daughters:  William A., Nevada May, Ella J., Blair A., Harry M., and Eldon.

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