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Samuel Baker is a native of Shelby County, Ohio, and was born in 1838. His parents, George and Susan Baker, were married in Ohio, removing, when our subject was a small boy to Morgan County, Ill., and afterward to Logan County of the same State, where they died. Mr. Baker was a farmer by occupation, and his wife was a member of the church. Samuel Baker is the sixth of twelve sons and two daughters, and was educated in the common country schools of Ohio, his boyhood days being spent on his father’s farm. At the age of twenty years he began doing for himself, and, when the war broke out, left the plow to enlist in the army, joining Company C, One Hundred and Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and operated in Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas, and in 1862, while at Jackson, Tenn., was captured while guarding a railroad, and was held in captivity in St. Louis for about nine months before he was exchanged. He rejoined his command at Little Rock, and participated in numerous skirmishes. He was mustered out at Pine Bluff, Ark., in July, 1865, and reached home just three years to a day after his enlistment. In 1866 he was married to Lucinda, a daughter of Thomas and Martha Simpson, the latter being a native of Illinois, in which State she also died. Mr. Simpson is residing at El Dorado Springs. In 1875 Mr. Baker removed to Bates County, Mo., and from there in 1877 to Barton County, and located on his present well cultivated farm of ninety-three acres, which was then raw land. His farm is underlaid with a good quality of coal, which he mines to a considerable extent at times, for neighborhood use. He and wife have five sons and two daughters.