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Eaton County Michigan EATON COUNTY
MEMORIAL REPORT
In the year 1843 he was married to Miss
Elizabeth Heal, who survives him. A family of
ten children has blessed their married life,
of whom nine are still living.
Thirty-three years ago, being then about
twenty-eight years of age, he emigrated to
America, bringing with him his wife and three
children. His wife's father came at the same
time.
Following others from the same locality in
England, he was led to settle in the town of
Flint and. has resided here ever since. A few
years after he was settled in his new home,
Mr. Baker learned that his father and brother
desired to emigrate to this country, but
could not command the necessary funds. With
commendable energy,, prompted by filial
attachment he succeeded in raising the
necessary sum of money by hard work, and sent
it to his father. The old man is still living
at the great age of ninety-one years.
William [John] Baker, though not a very old
man, belongs to the age and number of the
pioneers, of what may now be called central
Michigan.
When he settled here this was northern
Michigan, but that movable line has advanced
one hundred and fifty miles north. To him
belongs, with his companions in labors the
honorable distinction of having assisted in
redeeming this portion of our fair State from
the wilderness.
The generation that is now entering into the
possession of these lands will never know how
much these pioneers endured, worked and
suffered that they might transmit this rich
inheritance to their successors.
Michigan 1883
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