Person:John Baker (132)

             20TH CENTURY HISTORY OF SANDUSKY  CO.     MEEK BOOK

         John B. Baker was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, but the Baker family cam originally from Germany.  Three brothers, Abraham, George, Jacob, all German farmers, came to Maryland at an early day and from there the grandfather Henry Baker subsequent moved with his family to OH, settling in Pickaway Co.  Although John B, Baker was a little boy at the time, he remembered the long journey made in wagons. He grew to manhood in Pickaway  CO and there was married to Mary Gephart.   In 1841 they moved to Sandusky  CO and settled in Jackson Township, seven miles west of Fremont, this being his second pioneering trip make in great covered wagons.  Again the him was to be developed from the great woods.  It requires a large amount of effort to build any kins of a house and as Mr. Baker had no tools to work with except a broad axe, it was quite a feat to construct from the green logs the little one-room cabin.  A floor of hewn logs made the interior dry and a clapboard roof kept out the storm.  Then began the daily toil to clear the land and when it was well under way he sold it.  John B, Baker acquired three farms, each containing eighty acres, which he bought for $7 and acre.  He then moved to Green Creek Township and settled on the present George Hawk farm and there his remaining years were spent and his death came when he reached his seventy-seventh year.  His widow lived some years longer, being over eighty years old when she died.  The had a family of eleven children; Leonard, Eli, William, Catherine, Henry, Mary, John, Jacob, Abraham, Rebecca, and an infant.