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Title: Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Charles H. (Charles Hinckley), b. 1864
Subjects: Baker, William Taylor, 1841-1903 Electric power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Premier press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ll representingthe fine arts. The annual report of the Institute for 1904 con-tains this paragraph in reference to my father:— The Art Institute has been fortunate in having closelyconnected with its management, a man who in many respectsrepresented the best type of Chicago citizenship, public spiritedwithout ostentation, of fearless integrity, sagacious in business,and simple and unaffected in private intercourse. As a testimonial to my fathers love of art and hisdevotion to this institution, we, his children, havegiven to the Art Institute one of Van Dycks bestpaintings entitled Portrait of Helena, wife of Hen-drick Du Bois, a painting that is about 300 yearsold. It was little enough to do for him, for undoubt-edly had he lived, he would have done manyfold morefor the Institute in a material way than our slight tri-bute amounted to. I am proud of the fact that myfather constituted one of the small group of men whodid the real work of forming and carrying on thegreat Art Institute.
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Glimpses of My Father in the Summer Time at Exmoor,highland park. ills. Chapter X.HOME LIFE AND CHARACTER. Formed on the good old plan,A true and brave and downright honest man;He blew no trumpet in the market place,Xor in the church with hypocritical faceSupplied with cant the lack of Christian grace;Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful willWhat others talked of, while their hands were still. —Whither. A STRANGER to my father who might read thepreceding narrative would be able to write thischapter and give a correct analysis of hischaracter, but few strangers ever saw him as weknew him in his home. Never has fiction nor poetryconjured up and painted a sublimer picture thanFathers tender love and solicitude for his invalidwife,—my step-mother, as it was enacted in his dailylife at home during his last years. From a most beau-tiful and gifted woman, such as she was when hetook her for his wife, she became transformed througha period of years by the curse of her affliction, until

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