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Leander Baker (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier in 47th Ky Mounted Infantry)

b. 1830?

Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Blake Baker and Edna Baker. Married to Mary C. Early Baker in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on January 16, 1850. Father of T. E. Baker, W. U. Baker, P. F. Baker, Blake Baker, M. E. Baker, and J. L. Baker. Carpenter in Caldwell County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1860. Served in the 47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a corporal from March 22, 1864 to December 26, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 393B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 811.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 48.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Harmony, p. 461A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 276.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 469.

Citation

Baker, Leander. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196553 (November 12, 2026).

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