West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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,u ym my v ' H4 r « HON. GEORGE C. BAKEK.

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W. VA. UNlVgKSIT lion. (Seorge Coleman ! aker Hon. Ge orge Coleman Baker, to whom this volume is dedicated, is a son of Andrew Coleman Baker, deceased, and Hannah (Vance) Baker. He was horn on the old Baker farm, March 4. 1862, in Union District, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The Baker homestead was patented to his great great grand- father during the reign of George III. of England, in 1772, and has continued to he and still is in the Baker family. His great grandfather, George Baker, was a gunsmith, who made the old flintlock guns with which to fight the Indians and the redcoats of old England. In this pioneer home John Norris Baker, his grand- father, was horn July T7, 1801, and was buried July 17, i8 )4, ninety-three years of age, respected by his neighbors and beloved by his church. Andrew Coleman Baker, father of this sketch, was born January 20, 1832, and died June 14, 1863. He was a Christian gentleman of the highest and best type — a pillar in the Methodist Church, a volunteer in the militia, and died early in the great Civil War. The subject of this .sketch attended the free schools at Morgantown, West Virginia. Graduated at the W ' est Virginia University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in June, 1883, at which institution William L. Wilson was then President, afterwards the distinguished Congressman from this District, and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee under Grover Cleveland ' s admin- istration. In June, 1886, he graduated in the Law Department of the University, and that year the degrees of Bachelor of Law and Master of Arts were conferred upon him. On January 1, 1887, he entered into partnership with Judge R. L. Berkshire and Hon. George C. Sturgiss. which co-partnership lasted for aboul two years. On January 1, 1889, having withdrawn from said partnership, he