Biography of
Carl Baker, M. D.
p. 1135
CARL BAKER, M.D., One of the
representative physicians and surgeons of Williamson county, Illinois, Dr. Carl Baker
is well upholding the prestige of the
honored name which he bears. He is descended from a fine old North Carolina
family, his great-grandfather Jonathan Baker,
having been
a native of the Old Dominion commonwealth, where the Baker
family were founded in the colonial epoch. Carl Baker,
in
his professional work, is associated with his father, Dr. Griffin
J. Baker,
who is a native son of Williamson county and who has been engaged in the
practice of medicine in this section of the state for over thirty-four years.
Father and son are now located at Herrin, where they control a P. 1136
large and lucrative
practice and where they are esteemed as citizens
of intrinsic loyalty and public
spirit.
Jonathan Baker,
great-grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a native of North
Carolina, whence he removed, with his family to Tennessee. Among his children
were:
George, who died unmarried;
Abel,
who passed his declining years in Williamson county, Illinois, where he died at
the patriarchal age of ninety years;
Benjamin J., who
died at Paragould, Arkansas;
Jonathan Aaron was the
grandfather of
Dr. Carl, of this notice;
Jacob D. is the father of
Martin Luther Baker, of
Marion, Illinois;
Rachel became the wife of
Ezekiel Clark and passed away in Williamson county;
Ann
married
Louis Cross and died near Chester,
Illinois; and
Casander became the wife of
William Rodden and passed her life in Missouri.
Jonathan Aaron Baker was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in
1821, and in 1836 he accompanied his parents to Benton county, Tennessee, where
he was reared and educated and where was solemnized his marriage, in 1847, to
Miss Mathilda C. Sanders. In 1850 he removed to Illinois,
settling in Williamson county, where he was identified with agricultural
pursuits until the time of his death, in 1875. His cherished and devoted wife
died in 1873. Their children were: Alonzo P., a medical
practitioner at Herrin; Dr. Griffin J., father of Dr. Carl, of this notice; Dr. Miles D.,
of Anna, Illinois; and Belle and Virgil,
who passed away in childhood.
Dr. Griffin J. Baker passed his boyhood and youth on the old parental
farm in Grassy Precinct, Williamson county, where he was born May 27, 1851. He
made the most of such educational advantages as came his way and at the age of
seventeen years began to teach a country school. He was identified with the
pedagogic profession in Williamson and Jackson counties for a number of terms,
during which time he was applying himself diligently to the study of medicine
under the able preceptorship of an older brother. Subsequently he was
matriculated as a student in the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, in
which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1878, with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine. He initiated the practice of his profession in Southern
Williamson county, where he remained until 1906, when he came to Herrin to
practice medicine with his son, Dr. Carl Baker
In 1872 Dr. Griffin J. Baker
was united in marriage to
Miss Lucy A. Allen,
a daughter of Isaac
and
Martha J. (Bayless) Allen,
originally of Tennessee. Concerning the five
children born to Dr.
and Mrs. Baker
the following brief data are here inserted,—Rhoda M.
died as Mrs. George L. Roberts,
and is survived by two sons, Paul
and Henry Roberts,
who reside with their maternal
grandparents at Herrin; Dr. Carl
is the immediate subject
of this review; Ada
died at the age of eighteen years, and
two children died in infancy.
Dr.
Carl Baker
was born at Cottage Home, Grassy Precinct of Williamson
county, Illinois, April 25, 1877. He received his preliminary educational
training in the public schools of his native place and when seventeen years of
age entered the preparatory department of the Southern Illinois Normal
University, at Carbondale. For four years he was a student in the medical
department of the Northwestern University at Chicago, being graduated in that
excellent institution in 1906. Immediately after graduation he went to Salt Lake City,
Utah, where he performed services as interne at the Salt Lake City Hospital. In
the following year he came to Herrin, where he has since been associated with
his venerable father in medical work. Both Dr. Griffin J. and Dr.
Carl Baker are appreciative and valued members of the Southern Illinois
Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. P. 1137
During the long years in which
Dr. Baker, Sr., has been a member of the medical profession he has done
considerable scientific research work and in 1888 he returned to his Alma Mater,
the University of Missouri, for post-graduate work. His professional career
excites the admiration and has won the respect of his contemporaries, and in a
calling in which one has to gain reputation by merit alone he has advanced
steadily until he is acknowledged as the superior of most of the members of the
profession in this part of the state, having long since left the ranks of the
many to stand among the successful few. In their political convictions Drs.
Baker are stanch supporters of the principles and policies for which the
Republican party stands
sponsor and while they have no time for participation in public affairs they are
ever active in promoting progress and improvement.
At Carbondale,
Illinois, October 20, 1902, Dr. Carl Baker
married
Miss Lena Baird,
the second child of
William
and Belle (Church) Baird. Mr. Baird
was a gallant soldier in the
Union ranks during the Civil war and after the close of hostilities located at
Carbondale. Dr.and Mrs. Baker
have one daughter, Cecil May.
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