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Herschel Clay Baker (Adair County, KY, attorney)

b. 1841-12-16 d. 1934

Adair County, Kentucky, attorney. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Son of E. C. Baker and Sarah M. Alexander Baker. College student in Adair County in 1860. Graduate of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1862. Studied law under Thomas T. Alexander. Admitted to the bar in 1863. Appointed master commissioner of the Adair Circuit Court in 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 153.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 9.

William Elsey Connelley, History of Kentucky, Volume 5 (Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1922), 577.


Find A Grave, “Judge Herschel Clay Baker (1841-1934),” Memorial #59183482, http://findagrave.com/memorial/59183482 (accessed February 13, 2018).

Citation

Baker, Herschel Clay. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204902 (November 12, 2026).

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