Stephen Baker (New York politician)

Baker was born in New York City, New York on August 12, 1819. He was a son of Stephen Baker, a merchant who was one of the original stockholders in the Manhattan Company, founded in 1799. He attended the common schools.{{cite web |title=BAKER, Stephen (1819-1875) |url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=B000074 |website=bioguideretro.congress.gov |publisher=Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress |accessdate=26 August 2020}}

In 1850, Baker engaged as importer of woolen goods, and moved to Poughkeepsie, New York.

He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving as U.S. Representative for the twelfth district of New York from March 4, 1861 to March 4, 1863.{{cite web|title=Stephen Baker|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/stephen_baker/401077|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|accessdate=14 August 2013}} After his term in office, he abandoned active business pursuits and lived in retirement until his death.{{cite web|title=Stephen Baker|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000074|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=14 August 2013}}

Baker was married to Anna Mary Greene (1827–1903). Together, they were the parents of:{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=John Milnes |title=The Baker Family: And the Edgar Family of Rahway, N.J. and New York City |date=1972 |publisher=Trumbull Pub. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7a8wAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=26 August 2020 |language=en}}

• Stephen Baker (1859–1946),{{cite news |title=STEPHEN BAKER, 87, NOTED BANKER, DIES; Bank of the Manhattan Co. Head Many Years, Became Its President at Age of 34 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/01/01/archives/stephen-baker-87-noted-bankerdies-bank-of-the-manhattan-co-head.html |accessdate=26 August 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=1 January 1947}} who served as president and chairman of the board of the Bank of the Manhattan Company, the earliest predecessor of Chase Bank, and an associate of John D. Rockefeller Jr.{{cite book |title=Who's Who in the East |date=1942 |publisher=Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin |page=190 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPP4MvNnc_QC |accessdate=26 August 2020 |language=en}} Baker married Mary Dabney Payson (1865–1948), a daughter of Francis Payson and sister of William Farquhar Payson, in 1890.{{cite news |title=W.F. PAYSON DEAD; AUTHOR, PUBLISHER; Ex-Managing Editor of Vogue and Founder of Firm of Own Name Succumbs at 63 WAS REPORTER IN YOUTH Once Had Served as Editor of The Field--His 'Debonnaire' Was Seen on Stage |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/04/16/archives/wf-payson-dead-author-publisher-exmanaging-editor-of-vogue-and.html |accessdate=26 August 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=16 April 1939}}

While en route to California for his health, on a train near Ogden, Utah, Baker died on June 9, 1875, aged 55 years and 301 days.{{cite web|title=Stephen Baker|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baker8.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=14 August 2013}} He was interred at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery in Poughkeepsie.

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