Bio provided by Ed Smith (#47100545)
C. C. Baker was born at Lexington, Ky., February 14, 1830. His father, Dudley Baker, was born on November 22, 1791, and his mother, Margaret Baker, on September 26, 1797.
The family later removed to Missouri and resided there until 1849, when the excitement occasioned by the discovery of gold turned all eyes in the direction of California. Father and son joined an emigrant train that was starting on the perilous journey across the plains, and C. C. Baker, then a young man of nineteen, drove one of the ox teams on the long trip. Arriving in California, he settled on lands on the Tuolumne River and engaged in sheep raising, at which he prospered.
In 1851 he went back to Missouri via the Isthmus of Panama, returning the following year across the plains with a drove of cattle and mules. Later, when it was shown that grain farming in this section was profitable, Mr. Baker was not slow to take advantage of the new industry, and his uplands were farmed to grain, while on his river bottom lands he continued to raise sheep, mules, cattle and horses. At the time of his demise, on June 10,1908, he was the owner of some 4,000 acres in Stanislaus County, most of it along the Tuolumne River, west of Modesto.
Bio provided by Ed Smith (#47100545)
C. C. Baker was born at Lexington, Ky., February 14, 1830. His father, Dudley Baker, was born on November 22, 1791, and his mother, Margaret Baker, on September 26, 1797.
The family later removed to Missouri and resided there until 1849, when the excitement occasioned by the discovery of gold turned all eyes in the direction of California. Father and son joined an emigrant train that was starting on the perilous journey across the plains, and C. C. Baker, then a young man of nineteen, drove one of the ox teams on the long trip. Arriving in California, he settled on lands on the Tuolumne River and engaged in sheep raising, at which he prospered.
In 1851 he went back to Missouri via the Isthmus of Panama, returning the following year across the plains with a drove of cattle and mules. Later, when it was shown that grain farming in this section was profitable, Mr. Baker was not slow to take advantage of the new industry, and his uplands were farmed to grain, while on his river bottom lands he continued to raise sheep, mules, cattle and horses. At the time of his demise, on June 10,1908, he was the owner of some 4,000 acres in Stanislaus County, most of it along the Tuolumne River, west of Modesto.
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