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Author: Leonard Wilson (1916)

JULIAN MEREDITH BAKER

IT IS generally conceded that the State of Virginia has furnished America with
more men of real worth and eminence than any other equal territory in this
Republic. From these men came the forbears of Dr. Julian Meredith Baker, who was
born October 27, 1857, at Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, where he
has always made his home. He is a son of Joseph Henry Baker, physician and
surgeon, and his wife, Susan Foxhall.

The first of the name we find in Virginia is that of Jonathan Baker of
Nansemond County, Virginia, settled in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, prior
to 1730. His son, Moses Baker, married Naomi Garrett; their son, William S.
Baker, M. D., married Julia Shurley, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Davis)
Shurley; and their son, John Henry Baker, M. D., married Susan Foxhall, as noted
above.

The Baker Coat of Arms, brought from England to Virginia by the ancestors of
Jonathan Baker, is thus heraldically described:

"Argent on a fess nebulee between three keys sable, a tower triple towered,
of the first." A wax seal bearing these arms is found on an old deed of Henry
Baker, now in possession of Richard H. Baker, of Norfolk, Virginia.

On the maternal side we find the ancestry of Dr. Baker traced for five
generations in a genealogical chart of the Dancy family prepared by former
Governor Henry Clark.

This French Huguenot family originally spelled the name D'Ancie. William
Dancy of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, married, in 1765, Agatha Little, of
Charles City County, Virginia. Their son, Edwin Dancy, married Lucy Knight,
having issue, 1, Edwin C. (Dr.); 2, Martha; 3, David (Dr.); 4, Francis L.
(Colonel), and 5, Sarah. Sarah Dancy was twice married. As a result of her union
with her second husband, William Foxhall, whom she married in 1823, the
following children were born: Lucy, David D., Frank D., Susan and Edwin D. Susan
Foxhall married Dr. Joseph H. Baker and had children: Frank S., Thomas A.,
Joseph H., Jr., and Julian, the subject proper of this sketch.

Dr. Julian M. Baker was educated at Tarboro Male Academy, Horner and Graves
Military Academy, University of Illinois, and the University of North Carolina,
from which he was graduated with the degree of B. S. His medical education was
acquired at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and at the University
of Maryland, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1879.

He has since devoted himself to the practice of his profession and has
served as Assistant Surgeon General of North Carolina and Surgeon of the First
Brigade, North Carolina State Troops.

Dr. Baker is a Director of the Edgecombe Homestead and Loan Association.
Politically he is a Democrat, but has never been actively identified with public
affairs.

In fraternal circles Dr. Baker is Past Master of Concord Lodge, No. 5S, A.
F. and A. M., and Past High Priest Concord Chapter, R. A. M. He is a member of
the Knights Templar, a Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason and belongs to
the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Baker was married at Tarboro, North Carolina, June 17, 1884, to Miss
Elizabeth Howard, born at Milton, North Carolina, August 30, 1863, a daughter of
Hon. George Howard and his wife, Anna Stamps. They have three daughters: (1)
Anna Howard, a graduate of Peace University, Raleigh, married W. E. Fenner, of
Rocky Mount, North Carolina; they have one child, Julian Baker Fenner. (2) Sue
Foxhall, a graduate of Peace Institute, married Dr. W. W. Green, of Tarboro,
North Carolina. (3) Elizabeth Howard, unmarried.

Dr. Baker has had an unusually successful career in his chosen profession.
He is a firm advocate of higher educational requirements in State laws for the
practice of medicine, and believes that greater restrictions should be placed
upon the practice of medical quacks and charlatans.

Dr. Baker's reading has been largely along the line of his profession and
allied scientific subjects. He is a frequent contributor to medical journals,
and his papers read before medical societies and published in their transactions
are remarkable for breadth of knowledge and sound research.

Dr. Baker's high professional standing is shown by the official positions he
has held. He has been President of the Medical Society of the State of North
Carolina; President of the North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners; a member
of the American Medical Association, of the Medical Society of North Carolina,
of the Seaboard Medical Association, of the Tri-State Medical Society, of the
Edgecombe County Medical Society, and of the Associations of Surgeons of the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. He has also been a member of the North Carolina
State Board of Health.

By his energy and capacity Dr. Baker has won for himself a strong position
in the community which he serves, and has built up a character for good
citizenship second to that of no man in his section.

Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MAKERS OF AMERICA
BIOGRAPHIES OF LEADING MEN OF THOUGHT AND ACTION

THE MEN WHO CONSTITUTE THE BONE AND SINEW OF AMERICAN PROSPERITY AND LIFE

VOLUME II

By
LEONARD WILSON,
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ASSISTED BY PROMINENT HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WRITERS
Illustrated with many full page engravings
B. F. JOHNSON, INC.
CITY OF WASHINGTON, U. S. A.
1916

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