COL Baker, James Heaton

James Heaton Baker
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Born: May 6, 1829

Birthplace: Monroe, Ohio

Father: Rev. Dr. Henry Baker 1797 – 1863

(Buried: Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio)​

Mother: Hannah Woodruff Heaton 1801 – 1839

(Buried: Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio)​

1st​ Wife: Rose Lucia Thurston 1831 – 1873

(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.)​

2nd​ Wife: Zulima E. Bartlett 1851 – 1933

Children:

Arthur Heaton Baker 1852 – 1896​

(Buried: Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.)​

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Harry Edgar Baker 1854 – 1920​

(Buried: Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Utah)​

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James Henry Baker 1889 – 1949

(Buried: Acacia Park Cemetery, Mendota Heights, Minnesota)​

Education:

Graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University​

Occupation before War:

Teacher and Principal of female Seminary in Richmond, Indiana​

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Owner of Scioto Gazette Newspaper in Chillicothe, Ohio​

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1856 – 1858: Ohio State Secretary of State​

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1860 – 1862: Minnesota State Secretary of State​

Civil War Career:

1860 – 1862: Minnesota State Secretary of State

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1862 – 1863: Colonel of 10th​ Minnesota Infantry Regiment​

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1863 – 1865: Provost Marshal Union Army, Department of Missouri​

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1863 – 1865: Colonel in the Union Army Volunteers​

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1865: Mustered out of the Union Army on October 21st​​

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1865: Brevetted Brigadier General for his service in the war​

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1867: Register of Public Lands in Booneville, Missouri​

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1867 – 1913: Farmer in Mankato, Minnesota​

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1871 – 1875: United States Commissioner of Pensions​

Died: May 25, 1913

Place of Death: Mankato, Minnesota

Age at time of Death: 84 years old

Burial Place: Glenwood Cemetery, Mankato, Minnesota

 

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6 companies of his 10th Minnesota were guards at the hanging of 38 Sioux at Mankato, Minnesota on Dec. 26, 1862. Actually only 35 were Sioux and 3 were French/Indian. But it was the largest mass execution in U.S. history.

 

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