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Owen Ross Baker (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer.)

b. 1831-05-23 d. 1894-04

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Baker and Mary Baker. Married to Julia F. Lindsay Baker in Christian County, Kentucky, on November 17, 1853. Father of Franklin Baker, Cora Baker, Eugenia Baker, Peter R. Baker, John M. Baker, and Gertrude Baker. Attended Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1848. Farmer in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned nine enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Burnesville in 1860. Employed Alonzo Beardin as a farm laborer in Burnesville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Burnesville in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 377A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 799.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Burnesville, p. 20.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Burnesville, p. 208B.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, 159, p. 459B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film #001942963, p. 242.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown College for the Year 1848-49 (Cincinnati: E. Shepard, 1849), 5.

"Owen Ross Baker (1831-1894)," Find A Grave, Memorial #180754281, accessed July 20, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180754281.

Citation

Baker, Owen Ross. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204640 (November 12, 2026).

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