California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


FRANK C. BAKER. Nine miles south of Bakersfield, Kern county, and in the Shafter 
district, is located the ranch which belongs to Frank C. Baker, consisting of twenty acres de- 
voted formerly to the cultivation of prunes. This ranch, which is on the Kern Island canal, 
is all leveled so that every foot can be irrigated, and it is justly classed among the val- 
uable ranches of this section of the country. A native Californian, Mr. Baker was born in 
Dixon, Solano county, December 22, 1867. 

Roland T. Baker, the father of Frank C, was a native of Clark county. Ill., where he 
made his home until nineteen years old. In 1857 he came to California in the western tide 
of emigration, taking up a ranch in Solano county, where he followed farming until 1900. 
Coming south in that year he located in Kern county, purchasing twenty acres of land in 
Greenfield district. The boyhood of Frank C. Baker was passed upon the paternal farm in 
Solano county, where he was trained in the practical life of a farmer. At the age of twenty- 
two years he took up the work for himself, in addition to ranching interests carrying on car- 
penter work, being located near Gorman Station, Los Angeles county. He then came to 
Kern county and rented land near Rosedale, where he remained until 1902, in that year pur- 
chasing his present ranch. Since locating upon this property he has taken up the prune trees 
and is now devoting the land to alfalfa and general farming. 

In Solano county Mr. Baker was married to Louise Crow, also a native of that locality, 
and they are the parents of four children, Violet, Henry, Roland and Roy M. In national 
politics Mr. Baker is a Republican, but in all local affairs he reserves the right to cast his 
vote for the man whom he considers best qualified for public office. He is now serving 
efficiently as school trustee. Fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen of the World.