Person

John Quicksell Baker (Kenton County, Kentucky, landlord)

b. 1801 d. 1872

Kenton County, Kentucky, landlord. Kentucky native. Son of Jesse Baker and Elizabeth Baker. Married to Ruth Alexander Baker in Owen County, Kentucky, on March 24, 1824. Father of Mary Baker, Franklin Baker, Anna Baker, Butler Baker, Letitia Baker, Paschal Baker, John Baker, Wesley Baker, Sarah Baker, Jessie Baker, and Alvie Baker. Farmer in Owen County, Kentucky, in 1850. Landlord in Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Kenton County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. XA/B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 1, p. 563.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 316 A.

"John Quicksell Baker (1801-1872)," Find A Grave, Memorial 25626054, accessed June 15, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25626054.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Owen County Marriages, Film 000272771.

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 42: 1903, p. 244.

Citation

Baker, John Quicksell. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281002 (November 12, 2026).

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