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Title: Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Publisher: Chicago : J. H. Beers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ied March 31, 1857,aged eighty-one years, bore him four children:Enoch E., the father of Davis A.; George, whomarried Mary Chaffee, and was a farmer nearMarietta, Ohio; John, who married Betsey Wheaton.and died on his farm in Ashford; and Laura, whodied unmarried in Ashford. Enoch E. Baker was born in Douglass, Mass.,in October, 1801, and was educated in the districtschools of his neighborhood. He remained on thehome farm until the familys removal to Ashford in1830, at which time his father gave him one hun-dred acres of land and built him a house, his brotherGeorge receiving the same generous treatment.More roving in his disposition, George eventuallytook to the West, but Enoch remained on the farmup to the time of his death, Dec. 2, 1876. His lastyears were full of suffering, occasioned by a malig-nant cancer. He was a Democrat in politics, ashad been his father before him, and he was a mem-ber of the old militia. When the Baptist Churchwas located at West Ashford, he was one of its
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Ma^ /^.BaJec^i^-^^ COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 449 most active members and generous supporters, andhe reared his children to God-fearing ways andhumane tendencies. His oldest child, Eddy, diedat the age of two years; John Webster married(first) Sarah White, and (second) Jane Brown,and died in Ash ford March 12, 1890, at the age ofsixty: Emily is the widow of Leander Walbridge,a farmer of Staffordville; Hon. Davis Arnold;Diantha Amelia is the wife of Chester Corbin, afarmer of Stafford; Mary Jane married LymanSquire, a farmer of Ashford; and George H., whomarried Janette Shurtliff, and later Sarah Waldo,is by occupation a carpenter and stone mason ofMansfield, where he is a man of some prominence,having served as a member of the board of select-men, while during his residence in Ashford he rep-resented the town in the Legislature during oneterm, and also served as constable. From earliest youth Hon. Davis A. Baker wasinspired with an ardent desire for a good education,and when th

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