Bio: Stephen Chase Baker :Ashland, Grafton County, New Hampshire

From Gazetteer of Grafton County, NH 1709-1886 -Ashland
Compiled & published by Hamilton Child 1886


Stephen Chase Baker, son of Joseph Baker, was born in Holderness in 1821.
His great grandfather, Joseph Baker, when a lad of 12 or 14 years, ran away
from his home in England, came to America and settled in New England. His
children were born in Nottingham, N. H. He was one of the grantees of
Holderness, and his right was improved by his son Andrew, who settled in the
township about 1772, and became the ancestor of the Baker family in Ashland
and Holderness. Joseph A. Baker, his grandson, occupies his original
homestead. Andrew Baker was an only son, had two sisters, one of whom
married John Shaw, from whom are descended the Shaws of Holderness. One
married Levi Drew, grandfather of Asa Drew, of Ashland. Andrew Baker married
Anna Knowlton, and had three daughters, and six sons who reached manhood,
viz.: James, Andrew K., Stephen, Ebenezer, Col. Nathan and Joseph. Joseph
Baker inherited his father's farm, married Hannah Piper and reared five sons
and four daughters. He was a drum-major in the old militia companies.
Stephen C. Baker, the eldest son, followed farming, teaching school winters
until about 1845, when he became interested in the manufacture of paper, in
the employ of George Hoyt. In 1854 he became a partner with Joseph W. Calley
in the manufacture of strw-board, and has been identified with this business
and the manufacture of leather-board. He has been superintendent of the
Sunday school about twenty years and chorister about nineteen years. He has
filled various town offices, and has also been an earnest temperance worker
for many years, and for the past two years has filled the position of Grand
Worthy Patriarch in the New Hampshire Grand Division Sons of Temperance.


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Submitted by: rickman@worldpath.net
Date: November 11, 2000
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