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Orlando Harrison Baker

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30: 445: 197:. For lack of money he had to drop out of college and go to work as a carpenter, painter, and teacher. He eventually saved up enough to complete his undergraduate degree at Indiana Asbury University (now 252:
Baker married Mary Catherine Ridley in 1858; she died in 1890 and he remarried, to Rachel Halton Beach. He had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood. His daughters Myra and
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Baker next moved into government service as a U.S. consul, first in Copenhagen, Denmark (1893-94) and then Sydney, Australia (1900-08). In 1908, he took up the consulship of
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to serve as its president, a position he held until the college closed in 1875. From 1875 to 1877, he served as pastor of churches in
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In 1879, he moved his family back to Indianola, and the following year he took up the editorship of the Indianola
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also became professors, Myra at Napa College and Joanna at Simpson College.
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In 1868, he took up the post of professor of Latin and Greek at
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Heads of universities and colleges in the United States
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Union County
Nagasaki
Indiana Asbury University
Simpson College
Algona College
Joanna Baker
Simpson College
Algona College
Union County, Indiana
Allegheny College
Meadville, Pennsylvania
DePauw University
Simpson College
Algona College
Cambridge
Boonsboro
Chicago Inter Ocean
Sandakan
Joanna








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