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Title: New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Metcalf, Henry Harrison, 1841-1932 Subjects: Farmers Farms Publisher: Concord, N.H. : Republican Press Association Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: ^ and, there being no grange inBow, he joined that at Hooksett, being a member of thefirst class initiated in that grange, with which he wasconnected several years, up to 1894, when he withdrewand united with the new grange which had been estab-

Text Appearing After Image: JOHN B. Baker. 364 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. lished in Bow, in which organization he served as over-seer in 1896. Five years ago, or in 1892, Mr. Bakerremoved from the homestead, and now has his residenceupon a small but productive and well-tilled farm near thenorthern boundary of the town, and two miles from thecentre of business in Concord. GEORGE B. KIMBALL, Grafton. The observing traveler by rail from Concord to Leb-anon, on approaching the Grafton station, beholds a finestretch of meadow to the right, and a spacious set of farm buildings, indica-tive of thrift and pros-perity. Here is thewell-known Kimballfarm, of which the latePeter Kimball, one ofthe most prominentagriculturists of histime, was for manyyears proprietor. Peter Kimball, amember of the notedKimball family of Bos-cawen, was born inthat town, March 25,1817. He was rearedto tarm life, but en-

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JOHN B. BAKER, Bow.

Five miles from the state house in Concord, in the town of Bow, about half a mile west from the Merrimack river, is the Baker farm, originally settled by Joseph Baker, son of a famous colonial surveyor of the same name, descending to his son James, and subsequently to Aaron W., son of the latter, who married Nancy Dustin, a descendant of the famous heroine of the Indian tragedy at the mouth of the Contoocook. This farm contains about 125 acres of land, with 100 acres of outlands. It was on this place, it may be stated incidentally, that the celebrated Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian science, was born. Aaron W. Baker was a thrifty, industrious farmer. He had four sons, two of whom are living. The elder son, John B., pursued the same calling, while Henry M., the younger, graduated from Dartmouth, studied law, followed his profession in Washington with financial success, engaged in politics, and served four years in congress as representative of the second New Hamp- shire district.

John B. Baker was born April 6, 1834. He obtained a fair education in the district schools and at the famous Pembroke "Gymnasium," and devoted himself to agri- culture on the homestead, where he remained up to 1892. Dairying was the leading specialty on this farm, under his father's management and his own a superior quality of butter being produced and sold to private cus-