William C. Baker
William C. Baker, eldest son of Jefferson and Margaret Baker, was born July 22, 1847, in Jackson Township, on the farm in section 30, where he now resides. His education was received in the common schools of Jackson Township, and by close application to his books at home, he is what we might call a self-educated man. In 1868 he began teaching school, which he followed as his vocation in connection with farming. Teaching in the winter and farming during the summer months until 1881, when he retired from teaching, and has since then given all of his time to farming, which he is conducting with success, and now owns the old home farm of one hundred and twenty acres in section 30, on which he resides. in 1878 he was elected clerk of Jackson Township, which office he filled until April, 1882. March 31, 1872, he married Miss Mary C. Thompson, by whom he had one child, viz., Allen Baker. His companion died November 23, 1875. On the 8th of April, 1876, he married Eureka Smith, by whom he had two children, Nora and Milton.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883