BIO: L. Brinsley BAKER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 297
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L. BRINSLEY BAKER, Todd, PA was born July 22, 1868, in Huntingdon county, Pa., 
son of Andrew J. and Mary T. (Taylor) Baker.  A. J. Baker was a son of 
Washington and Elizabeth Baker and a brother of Reuben T. Baker; he was educated 
in the public schools of Tod township, and was a farmer until the beginning of 
the Civil war.  He enlisted in February, 1864, in Company K, Third Pennsylvania 
Pro. Cavalry, and participated in all the battles in which his company engaged.  
August 21, 1864, he was wounded at Charleston and was taken to the field 
hospital at Sandy Hook, where he remained until October 31, 1865.  Returning 
home he worked at carpentry, and at Eagle Foundry, June 5, 1868, met with an 
accident which resulted in his death.  Andrew J. Baker was married to Mary T., 
daughter of Isaac Taylor, a farmer of Tod township.  They had but one child, L. 
Brinsley.  Mrs. Baker is now the wife of Dr. W. H. Johnson, of Robertsdale, 
Huntingdon county.  Mr. Baker was a Republican.  He was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. 
  L. B. Baker was educated in the public schools and at the Huntingdon Normal 
School.  He was disabled by lameness for certain kinds of work.  He sold books 
in Huntingdon county, and later served as nurse in a Centre county hospital.  He 
spent three years on a farm and then embarked in general mercantile business. 
  L. Brinsley Baker was married in Cass township, October 30, 1892, to Miss Mary 
E. Mosser, a native of Fulton county.  Their only child, Lolo Beatrice, is 
deceased.  Mr. Baker is a Republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church.