Another Pioneer Gone
The final summons came Tuesday,Oct. 31,1911 at 8:30a.m. to Alanson Baker Sr..,one of the frist pioneers of western Plymouth County.
On Wednesday night last week he was taken with a chill and bronchial pneumonia developed.This with heart trouble of long standing and advanced age,formed a combination he could not long withstand,and passed away at the age of 83 years,1 month and 5 days.
Alanson Baker was the son of John & Sarah (Loomis) Baker,natives,respectively,of Vermont and Connecticut and is the last of a familm of ten children.
He was born in Tompkins County,New York,on Sept. 26,1828.
When he was two or three years of age the family moved to Allegany County,where he lived on a farm with them and attended school until he was twenty one years of age.He then went to the lumber woods of Wisconson and spent two years in work there.He then returned home,where for two years he worked for his father,and following year,engaged in lumbering in the Pennsylvania woods,spending one winter there.
Then in 1854,he came to Charles City,Iowa,and purchased land near that city.During the frist summer,however,he worked for a farmer.The next year he bought some stock,but spent mosst of his time in hunting.In the fall he had the ague and could do nothing until the spring,when he sold his two hundred acres of land and stated by ox-team for Sioux City,this being in 1856.
Coming westward he passed throught Spirit Lake,Iowa where the following year nearly all the settlers were massacred by a band of renegade Sioux Indians,under Inkpadutah.
In coming down the Big Sioux Valley,he crossed the site what is now Akron,and at that time there was not a house north of here and only one,th Mills place,between this and Sioux City.
While a resident of Sioux City he engaged in speculation to some extent,but did little work until 1860,when he worked on the Missouri river farry boat,and during the winter cut wood around Covington.
In thee fall of 1857 he purchased 160 acres of fine Big Sioux Valley land in sections 1 and 36,and two years later bought and additional 80 acres in section 1,all in Portland Township,Plymouth County,Iowa,paart of the same being the present home farm,for which he paid $ 2.50 per acre.He continued to add to his holdings and has come to the considered one of the heaviest property owner in the part of the county.The winter after running the ferry boat he spent in taking care of cattle abt twenty mils south of Sioux City.
In 1857 he receive fifty dollars per month for his labor,but soon the hard times came on and before leaving that part of the county was obliged to work for,twelve dollars per month.Havoing considerable money out at interest,he lost about two thousand dollars becuse of the hard times.
In Oct. 1862.Mr. Baker enlisted in Compaany 1. Second Neberaska Cavalry for nine months,and was discharged in Dec. 1863.His company was in the battle of White Stone Hill.After receving his discharge he returned to New Yoprk and spent the winter with his parents,and in the spring went to the Montanna gold fields,where he engaged in mining,traveling and prospecting for about two years.He then came to Winnebago Indian reservation in Nebraska and worked in getting out logs and in a saw-mill for eighteen months,and in the meantime purchased 140 acres of land.He remianed in that place until the spring of 1873.when he came to the present home.The frist year he raised forty acres of wheat and broke forty acres,and then returned to Dakota County,Nebraska and after remaining there that winter returned to his farm here and put eighty acres of crop.During the grasshopper raids he was a heavy loser,but had abundant faith in the future of this region and has reaped richly the reward of his foresight and industry.
When he purchased the present home place the nearest neighbors were ten miles distant.When he located here the town of Akron,adjoining his land on the northeast,was just starting.
In Politics Mr. Bakerwas a staunch republican of the old school.He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.A pioneer in carving thi solendid doain from a virgin wilderness,honorable and upright in all theaffairs of life,he was held in high respect by all who kneww him.
In wat is now South Sioux City,Nebraska,Mr. Baker and Miss Mary E. George were reunited in marriage Nov. 23,1872.Thir unionwas blesed with three children ;Sarah R. (Mrs. M.M. Talbott),and Alanson Jr.,of this place,and Mrs. M. Avis(Mrs. Chas L. Lockie,of Nashville,Tenn. all of whom,with the widow,survive.They have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement.
Funeral services are to be held in the Akron Baptist Church tommorow(Friday)afternoon at 2 o'clock.Interment will be in the Riverside Cemetery
(Source: The Akron Register-Tridine;Akron Plymouth County,Iowa,USA;Thursday,November 2,1911;Volume 25,Number 12,page 1.)
The final summons came Tuesday,Oct. 31,1911 at 8:30a.m. to Alanson Baker Sr..,one of the frist pioneers of western Plymouth County.
On Wednesday night last week he was taken with a chill and bronchial pneumonia developed.This with heart trouble of long standing and advanced age,formed a combination he could not long withstand,and passed away at the age of 83 years,1 month and 5 days.
Alanson Baker was the son of John & Sarah (Loomis) Baker,natives,respectively,of Vermont and Connecticut and is the last of a familm of ten children.
He was born in Tompkins County,New York,on Sept. 26,1828.
When he was two or three years of age the family moved to Allegany County,where he lived on a farm with them and attended school until he was twenty one years of age.He then went to the lumber woods of Wisconson and spent two years in work there.He then returned home,where for two years he worked for his father,and following year,engaged in lumbering in the Pennsylvania woods,spending one winter there.
Then in 1854,he came to Charles City,Iowa,and purchased land near that city.During the frist summer,however,he worked for a farmer.The next year he bought some stock,but spent mosst of his time in hunting.In the fall he had the ague and could do nothing until the spring,when he sold his two hundred acres of land and stated by ox-team for Sioux City,this being in 1856.
Coming westward he passed throught Spirit Lake,Iowa where the following year nearly all the settlers were massacred by a band of renegade Sioux Indians,under Inkpadutah.
In coming down the Big Sioux Valley,he crossed the site what is now Akron,and at that time there was not a house north of here and only one,th Mills place,between this and Sioux City.
While a resident of Sioux City he engaged in speculation to some extent,but did little work until 1860,when he worked on the Missouri river farry boat,and during the winter cut wood around Covington.
In thee fall of 1857 he purchased 160 acres of fine Big Sioux Valley land in sections 1 and 36,and two years later bought and additional 80 acres in section 1,all in Portland Township,Plymouth County,Iowa,paart of the same being the present home farm,for which he paid $ 2.50 per acre.He continued to add to his holdings and has come to the considered one of the heaviest property owner in the part of the county.The winter after running the ferry boat he spent in taking care of cattle abt twenty mils south of Sioux City.
In 1857 he receive fifty dollars per month for his labor,but soon the hard times came on and before leaving that part of the county was obliged to work for,twelve dollars per month.Havoing considerable money out at interest,he lost about two thousand dollars becuse of the hard times.
In Oct. 1862.Mr. Baker enlisted in Compaany 1. Second Neberaska Cavalry for nine months,and was discharged in Dec. 1863.His company was in the battle of White Stone Hill.After receving his discharge he returned to New Yoprk and spent the winter with his parents,and in the spring went to the Montanna gold fields,where he engaged in mining,traveling and prospecting for about two years.He then came to Winnebago Indian reservation in Nebraska and worked in getting out logs and in a saw-mill for eighteen months,and in the meantime purchased 140 acres of land.He remianed in that place until the spring of 1873.when he came to the present home.The frist year he raised forty acres of wheat and broke forty acres,and then returned to Dakota County,Nebraska and after remaining there that winter returned to his farm here and put eighty acres of crop.During the grasshopper raids he was a heavy loser,but had abundant faith in the future of this region and has reaped richly the reward of his foresight and industry.
When he purchased the present home place the nearest neighbors were ten miles distant.When he located here the town of Akron,adjoining his land on the northeast,was just starting.
In Politics Mr. Bakerwas a staunch republican of the old school.He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.A pioneer in carving thi solendid doain from a virgin wilderness,honorable and upright in all theaffairs of life,he was held in high respect by all who kneww him.
In wat is now South Sioux City,Nebraska,Mr. Baker and Miss Mary E. George were reunited in marriage Nov. 23,1872.Thir unionwas blesed with three children ;Sarah R. (Mrs. M.M. Talbott),and Alanson Jr.,of this place,and Mrs. M. Avis(Mrs. Chas L. Lockie,of Nashville,Tenn. all of whom,with the widow,survive.They have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement.
Funeral services are to be held in the Akron Baptist Church tommorow(Friday)afternoon at 2 o'clock.Interment will be in the Riverside Cemetery
(Source: The Akron Register-Tridine;Akron Plymouth County,Iowa,USA;Thursday,November 2,1911;Volume 25,Number 12,page 1.)
Another Pioneer Gone
The final summons came Tuesday,Oct. 31,1911 at 8:30a.m. to Alanson Baker Sr..,one of the frist pioneers of western Plymouth County.
On Wednesday night last week he was taken with a chill and bronchial pneumonia developed.This with heart trouble of long standing and advanced age,formed a combination he could not long withstand,and passed away at the age of 83 years,1 month and 5 days.
Alanson Baker was the son of John & Sarah (Loomis) Baker,natives,respectively,of Vermont and Connecticut and is the last of a familm of ten children.
He was born in Tompkins County,New York,on Sept. 26,1828.
When he was two or three years of age the family moved to Allegany County,where he lived on a farm with them and attended school until he was twenty one years of age.He then went to the lumber woods of Wisconson and spent two years in work there.He then returned home,where for two years he worked for his father,and following year,engaged in lumbering in the Pennsylvania woods,spending one winter there.
Then in 1854,he came to Charles City,Iowa,and purchased land near that city.During the frist summer,however,he worked for a farmer.The next year he bought some stock,but spent mosst of his time in hunting.In the fall he had the ague and could do nothing until the spring,when he sold his two hundred acres of land and stated by ox-team for Sioux City,this being in 1856.
Coming westward he passed throught Spirit Lake,Iowa where the following year nearly all the settlers were massacred by a band of renegade Sioux Indians,under Inkpadutah.
In coming down the Big Sioux Valley,he crossed the site what is now Akron,and at that time there was not a house north of here and only one,th Mills place,between this and Sioux City.
While a resident of Sioux City he engaged in speculation to some extent,but did little work until 1860,when he worked on the Missouri river farry boat,and during the winter cut wood around Covington.
In thee fall of 1857 he purchased 160 acres of fine Big Sioux Valley land in sections 1 and 36,and two years later bought and additional 80 acres in section 1,all in Portland Township,Plymouth County,Iowa,paart of the same being the present home farm,for which he paid $ 2.50 per acre.He continued to add to his holdings and has come to the considered one of the heaviest property owner in the part of the county.The winter after running the ferry boat he spent in taking care of cattle abt twenty mils south of Sioux City.
In 1857 he receive fifty dollars per month for his labor,but soon the hard times came on and before leaving that part of the county was obliged to work for,twelve dollars per month.Havoing considerable money out at interest,he lost about two thousand dollars becuse of the hard times.
In Oct. 1862.Mr. Baker enlisted in Compaany 1. Second Neberaska Cavalry for nine months,and was discharged in Dec. 1863.His company was in the battle of White Stone Hill.After receving his discharge he returned to New Yoprk and spent the winter with his parents,and in the spring went to the Montanna gold fields,where he engaged in mining,traveling and prospecting for about two years.He then came to Winnebago Indian reservation in Nebraska and worked in getting out logs and in a saw-mill for eighteen months,and in the meantime purchased 140 acres of land.He remianed in that place until the spring of 1873.when he came to the present home.The frist year he raised forty acres of wheat and broke forty acres,and then returned to Dakota County,Nebraska and after remaining there that winter returned to his farm here and put eighty acres of crop.During the grasshopper raids he was a heavy loser,but had abundant faith in the future of this region and has reaped richly the reward of his foresight and industry.
When he purchased the present home place the nearest neighbors were ten miles distant.When he located here the town of Akron,adjoining his land on the northeast,was just starting.
In Politics Mr. Bakerwas a staunch republican of the old school.He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.A pioneer in carving thi solendid doain from a virgin wilderness,honorable and upright in all theaffairs of life,he was held in high respect by all who kneww him.
In wat is now South Sioux City,Nebraska,Mr. Baker and Miss Mary E. George were reunited in marriage Nov. 23,1872.Thir unionwas blesed with three children ;Sarah R. (Mrs. M.M. Talbott),and Alanson Jr.,of this place,and Mrs. M. Avis(Mrs. Chas L. Lockie,of Nashville,Tenn. all of whom,with the widow,survive.They have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement.
Funeral services are to be held in the Akron Baptist Church tommorow(Friday)afternoon at 2 o'clock.Interment will be in the Riverside Cemetery
(Source: The Akron Register-Tridine;Akron Plymouth County,Iowa,USA;Thursday,November 2,1911;Volume 25,Number 12,page 1.)
The final summons came Tuesday,Oct. 31,1911 at 8:30a.m. to Alanson Baker Sr..,one of the frist pioneers of western Plymouth County.
On Wednesday night last week he was taken with a chill and bronchial pneumonia developed.This with heart trouble of long standing and advanced age,formed a combination he could not long withstand,and passed away at the age of 83 years,1 month and 5 days.
Alanson Baker was the son of John & Sarah (Loomis) Baker,natives,respectively,of Vermont and Connecticut and is the last of a familm of ten children.
He was born in Tompkins County,New York,on Sept. 26,1828.
When he was two or three years of age the family moved to Allegany County,where he lived on a farm with them and attended school until he was twenty one years of age.He then went to the lumber woods of Wisconson and spent two years in work there.He then returned home,where for two years he worked for his father,and following year,engaged in lumbering in the Pennsylvania woods,spending one winter there.
Then in 1854,he came to Charles City,Iowa,and purchased land near that city.During the frist summer,however,he worked for a farmer.The next year he bought some stock,but spent mosst of his time in hunting.In the fall he had the ague and could do nothing until the spring,when he sold his two hundred acres of land and stated by ox-team for Sioux City,this being in 1856.
Coming westward he passed throught Spirit Lake,Iowa where the following year nearly all the settlers were massacred by a band of renegade Sioux Indians,under Inkpadutah.
In coming down the Big Sioux Valley,he crossed the site what is now Akron,and at that time there was not a house north of here and only one,th Mills place,between this and Sioux City.
While a resident of Sioux City he engaged in speculation to some extent,but did little work until 1860,when he worked on the Missouri river farry boat,and during the winter cut wood around Covington.
In thee fall of 1857 he purchased 160 acres of fine Big Sioux Valley land in sections 1 and 36,and two years later bought and additional 80 acres in section 1,all in Portland Township,Plymouth County,Iowa,paart of the same being the present home farm,for which he paid $ 2.50 per acre.He continued to add to his holdings and has come to the considered one of the heaviest property owner in the part of the county.The winter after running the ferry boat he spent in taking care of cattle abt twenty mils south of Sioux City.
In 1857 he receive fifty dollars per month for his labor,but soon the hard times came on and before leaving that part of the county was obliged to work for,twelve dollars per month.Havoing considerable money out at interest,he lost about two thousand dollars becuse of the hard times.
In Oct. 1862.Mr. Baker enlisted in Compaany 1. Second Neberaska Cavalry for nine months,and was discharged in Dec. 1863.His company was in the battle of White Stone Hill.After receving his discharge he returned to New Yoprk and spent the winter with his parents,and in the spring went to the Montanna gold fields,where he engaged in mining,traveling and prospecting for about two years.He then came to Winnebago Indian reservation in Nebraska and worked in getting out logs and in a saw-mill for eighteen months,and in the meantime purchased 140 acres of land.He remianed in that place until the spring of 1873.when he came to the present home.The frist year he raised forty acres of wheat and broke forty acres,and then returned to Dakota County,Nebraska and after remaining there that winter returned to his farm here and put eighty acres of crop.During the grasshopper raids he was a heavy loser,but had abundant faith in the future of this region and has reaped richly the reward of his foresight and industry.
When he purchased the present home place the nearest neighbors were ten miles distant.When he located here the town of Akron,adjoining his land on the northeast,was just starting.
In Politics Mr. Bakerwas a staunch republican of the old school.He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.A pioneer in carving thi solendid doain from a virgin wilderness,honorable and upright in all theaffairs of life,he was held in high respect by all who kneww him.
In wat is now South Sioux City,Nebraska,Mr. Baker and Miss Mary E. George were reunited in marriage Nov. 23,1872.Thir unionwas blesed with three children ;Sarah R. (Mrs. M.M. Talbott),and Alanson Jr.,of this place,and Mrs. M. Avis(Mrs. Chas L. Lockie,of Nashville,Tenn. all of whom,with the widow,survive.They have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement.
Funeral services are to be held in the Akron Baptist Church tommorow(Friday)afternoon at 2 o'clock.Interment will be in the Riverside Cemetery
(Source: The Akron Register-Tridine;Akron Plymouth County,Iowa,USA;Thursday,November 2,1911;Volume 25,Number 12,page 1.)
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