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- Samuel Baker, was educated at the Academy in Clinton, a member of the last class before it's charter as Hamilton College took effect. In 1812 he returned to Pompey, where he pursued the study of law in the office of S. S. Baldwin. After two years, he abondoned the study of law for commerce. He took a clerks position in Mr. Morris' store, eventually assuming sole proprietorship.
TALKS ABOUT POMPEY HILL
by Luella S. Dunham
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The "Weekly Recorder," Fayetteville
August 21, 1879
Samuel Baker, son of Nathaniel, was married to Miss Philena Hascall in 1819, and they resided in his father's house until their residence was built in 1823. Their two older children were born in the red house, Henry H., of this place, and Kate, wife of Judge Lucien Birdseye, of Brooklyn.
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New York Evangelist
August 20, 1874
Died, after a brief illness, at Pompey, Aug. 8th, 1874, Deacon Samuel Baker, in the eighty-first year of his age.
Deacon Samuel Baker was born in East Hampton, L.I., Oct. 2d, 1793. His parents removed with him to Pompey in 1806, locating on the spot which has since been the residence of father, son, and grandson. He united with the First Congregational church of Pompey, Dec. 3, 1826; was elected deacon April 26th, 1840, and for nearly fifty years has faithfully filled the office of clerk and treasurer of the society.
His wife, Philena Haskell, made profession of her faith at the same time. His second wife, who survives him, was Eunice Birdseye of Cirnwall, Conn.
Deacon Baker was a man of liberal education, whose active life was spent in mercantile persuits in this village, and whose later years have been occupied with the oversight of the farm which came to him by inheritance.
A man of affable spirit, of sound judgement, a kind husband and father, beloved of six children who survive him, he was after all best known as Deacon Baker; whose life was so thoroughly identified with the church he has served, and borne on his heart and prayers for forty years, that to think of the church was to think of him, and to think of him was to call up the church.
Next to the church was the Academy, which in years gone by shone as a light on Pompey Hill, and from whose doors have gone out scores of men and women now influential in professional and social life.
Deacon Baker was a man seldom absent from the prayer meeting, or his place in the house of God, and it is believed never absent from his official duties on communion Sabbaths but once since his election - and then in July last.
The Church of God has few more thoroughly consistent amd devoted members. He wore his religion as a daily garment; and for his church, weakened by the many removals, his death is the loss of a standard bearer ever in his place, serving a church that he loved as his own life.
His illness was very brief, following a fall some weeks since, but almost to the last his mind had the vigor and clearness of mature life, and his correspondence was kept up nearly to its close.
Six children survive him - three of them in New York and Brooklyn - all of them consistent members of the Church of Christ, who will never forget his wise counsels, the hospitable Christian home he made for them, nor the prayers which are now their precious legacy. They with several grandchildren and a large concourse attended his funeral and followed him to his burial, on Sunday evening, August 9th, and now mourn his loss
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1793 - 1874 (80 years)
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