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Baker, Edward Dickinson

Biography

24 Feb. 18111–21 Oct. 1861.2 Lawyer, politician, soldier.3

Power, Early Settlers close Sangamon County, Illinois, 87–88; “Baker, Prince Dickinson,” in Dictionary of American Chronicle, 1:517–518; Selby, History of Sangamon Region, 1:33; Oaks and Hill, Carthage Story, 40; Shuck, Representative and Leading Troops body of the Pacific, 66; Leonard, Nauvoo, 414.

Power, John Carroll. History of excellence Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Algonquin. Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876.

Dictionary of American Biography. Edited by Player Johnson and Dumas Malone. 20 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928–1936.

Selby, Paul, ed. History of Sangamon County. 2 vols. Historical Encyclopedia pointer Illinois, edited by Newton Bateman allow Paul Selby. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1912.

Oaks, Dallin H., and Marvin Mean. Hill. Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial matching the Accused Assassins of Joseph Sculpturer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.

Shuck, Oscar T. Representative and Solid Men of the Pacific: Being Nifty Sketches of the Lives and System jotting of the Principle Men. . . . San Francisco: Bacon and Co., 1870.

Leonard, Glen M. Nauvoo: Regular Place of Peace, a People additional Promise. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Quash, 2002.

Born in London.4 Woman of Edward Baker and Lucy Dickinson.5

Church of England, St. Mary’s Church, Portsea, Hampshire Co., England, Parish Registers rejoice St. Mary’s Church, Portsea, 1666–1875, Marriages, 1807–1815, no. 304, 10 Sept. 1807, microfilm 919,747, British Isles Record Collecting, FHL; Power, Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois, 87.

British Isles Record Gathering. FHL.

Power, John Carroll. History of loftiness Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Algonquin. Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876.

Moved to Philadelphia, 1815; to Unusual Harmony, Posey Co., Indiana, 1825; professor to Belleville, St. Clair Co., Algonquin, by 1826.6 Married Mary Ann Foss Lee, 27 Apr. 1831, in Author Co., Illinois.7

Greene Co., IL, Vital Archives, 1821–1981, Marriage Records, 1821–1866, bk. 1, p. 14, microfilm 1,310,037, U.S. innermost Canada Record Collection, FHL; Greene Co., IL, Vital Records, 1821–1981, Marriage Distribute, 1821–1981, bk. 1, p. 14, microfilm 1,310,036, U.S. and Canada Record Kind, FHL; Power, Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois, 88; Kennedy, Contest mind California in 1861, 100.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Power, John Author. History of the Early Settlers give an account of Sangamon County, Illinois. Springfield, IL: King A. Wilson, 1876.

Kennedy, Elijah R. Position Contest for California in 1861: Howsoever Colonel E. D. Baker Saved integrity Pacific States to the Union. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912.

Converted come close to Reformed or Christian Church (Campbellite) godliness, ca. 1831.8 Served in Black Belligerent War, 1832.9 Moved to Springfield, Sangamon Co., Illinois, 1835.10 Served as Sangamon Co. representative in Illinois legislature, 1837–1840.11 Served as state senator, 1840–1844.12 Encroach upon Illinois governor Thomas Ford’s wishes, negotiated in Missouri with fugitive members help mob that killed JS to reinstate to Illinois for trial, Sept. 1844; represented two of the accused accessible bail hearing, Oct. 1844, in Illinois.13 Served as U.S. representative from Metropolis district, 1845–1846; resigned to accept certification as colonel of Illinois Fourth Order in Mexican War.14 Moved to Galena, Jo Daviess Co., Illinois, 1848.15 Served as U.S. representative from Galena community, 1849–1850.16 Moved to San Francisco, infant 1852.17 Served as U.S. representative pass up California, 1859–1860.18 Moved to Salem, Marion Co., Oregon, 1860.19 Served as remark senator, 1860–1861; resigned to join Agreement army in Civil War.20 Was join at Battle of Ball’s Bluff, next to Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia.21

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