Oregon Republican League "Bridging the Generations Project 400": ORL Baker Family

Oregon Republican League "Bridging the Generations Project 400": ORL Baker Family

Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 178.

BAKER, COLONEL EDWARD DICKERSON, first Republican senator from Oregon, was born in London, England, February 24, 1811. He was four years of age when his family came to America and located in Philadelphia. He was early apprenticed to weaver, but, his father being an educated man and a teacher, young baker did not lack for mental training. At the age of fourteen he accompanied the family to Illinois, settling in the Wabash valley, but soon crossing the state in to Belleville. Here, young Baker won the favor of Governor Edwards and had access to his fine library, and stored his mind with the gems of literature. At the age of eighteen he went to St. Lois to find employment, and drove a dray. A little later he began the study of law at Carrollton, Illinois, in the office of Judge Caverly, at the same time serving as Deputy County Clerk. Before he was of age he had secured a license to practice law. In 1832 he served as a private in the Black Hawk war. In 1845 he was elected to congress, being the only Whig from the state of Illinois. The next year he raised a regiment for the Mexican was and served with distinction until its close. Later he went to California, and, with the murdered Senator Broderick, fought bitterly the pro-slavery Democratic rulers of the state. So great a reputation as an orator did he make, that the first Republican state convention held in Oregon decided to invite him to come north to stump the state. A little he came to Oregon and charmed and fired all with his eloquent pleas for liberty and union, and in 1860 was elected the first Republican to represent the state in the United States Senate. He went to Washington when treason was plotting openly, and at once became a commanding figure in the senate, his matchless oratory and fiery denunciation of traitors compelling all to yield to him the first place in debate. When Sumpter was fired upon he went to Philadelphia and recruited the “California” regiment, of which he became colonel. He divided his time between his senatorial and military duties, and it was dressed in his uniform and after arriving hastily in the senate that he delivered that masterly, impassioned, extemporaneous reply to a treasonable speech just made by a Southern senator, which was one of the classics of the literature of liberty and popular government. A few months later , at the battle of Ball’s Bluff, October 21, 1861, while gallantly leading his brigade, he was killed, yielding up his life for the cause of liberty, in whose defense his voice has been raised for a quarter of a century.

Edward's parents were Edward Baker and Lucy Dickinson.

Descendants of Lucy Dickinson

1 Lucy Dickinson b: Abt. 1790 in England d: in Deceased
.. +Edward Baker b: in England d: Jun 1835 in Portsmouth, England
........ 2 Edward Dickinson Baker b: 24 Feb 1811 in London, England d: 21 Oct 1861 in Ball's Bluff, Loudoun County, Virginia
............ +Mary Ann Foss b: Abt. 1811 in Baltimore, Maryland (Notes) m: 27 Apr 1831 in Green County, Illinois d: 1871 in San Francisco, California, Bay Area
................... 3 Samuel Baker b: 1844 in Springfield, Sangamon County, IL d: Bef. 1860
................... 3 Caroline C. Baker b: 1834 in Carrollton, Greene, Illinois d: in Deceased
....................... +Robert J. Stevens b: 1826 in Newport, Newport County, RI m: in San Francisco, California d: in Deceased
............................. 4 Robert Stevens
............................. 4 Carrie Stevens
............................. 4 Robert E. Stevens b: 1855 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
............................. 4 Caroline B. Stevens b: 1859 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
................................. +John Ayres Hatfield b: 04 May 1848 in London, England m: Bef. 1889 d: 19 Nov 1896 in Seattle, King County, WA
........................................ 5 Alfred S. Hatfield b: 16 Jul 1889 in Washington
............................................ +? ? m: 1912
................... 3 Alfred Worthington Baker b: 1836 in Springfield, Sangamon County, IL d: Apr 1897 in San Francisco, CA
................... 3 Edward Dickinson Baker b: 1838 in Springfield, Sangamon County, IL d: 25 Jan 1883
....................... +Saccha Alma Bradshaw b: 1843 in Illinois m: Abt. 1863
................... 3 Maria Lee Baker b: 1827
................... 3 Frank Lee Baker b: Abt. 1828
................... 3 Lucy S. Baker b: 1832 in Carrollton, Greene, Illinois d: in Deceased
....................... +Charles Hopkins b: 06 Oct 1817 in Genoa, Cayuga County, NY m: Abt. 1852 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA d: in Deceased
............................. 4 Charles Hopkins b: 15 Jul 1855 in San Francisco, CA d: 04 Feb 1920 in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Olmsted County, MN
................................. +Josephine Davenport b: Dec 1862 in Oregon m: 02 May 1880
........................................ 5 Caroline B. Hopkins b: Mar 1884 in Washington
........................................ 5 ? Hopkins b: 1885 in Washington d: 08 Feb 1890 in Seattle, King County, WA
........................................ 5 Eva D. Hopkins b: Feb 1887 in Washington d: Bef. 1920
............................. 4 Caroline Hopkins b: 09 Apr 1858 in San Francisco, CA d: 12 Feb 1929
............................. 4 Robert Hopkins b: Apr 1861 in California
................................. +Rowena ? b: Mar 1865 in Washington m: 1889
........................................ 5 Lucy A. Hopkins b: Jan 1891 in Washington
............................. 4 Ralph Hopkins b: 22 Mar 1870 in Oregon d: 13 May 1923
................................. +Agnes Virginia Ekstrand b: 1888 in Michigan m: 1908 d: 18 Mar 1952
........................................ 5 Edward Baker Hopkins b: 01 Aug 1909 in Seattle, King County, WA d: 31 Dec 1971 in Snohomish, Snohomish County, WA
........................................ 5 Samuel A. Hopkins b: 04 Dec 1911 in Seattle, King County, WA d: 21 May 1964
........ 2 Alfred C. Baker b: 15 Mar 1813 in London, England
............ +Martha A. Barney b: Abt. 1813 m: 31 Aug 1842 in Pittsfield, Pike County, Ilinois
................... 3 Bud Baker
................... 3 Edward Baker b: Abt. 1845
................... 3 Alfred J. Baker b: Abt. 1847
................... 3 Carrie B. Baker b: 1854
................... 3 Lydell Baker b: 30 Sep 1861
................... 3 Mary Ann Baker b: 15 Sep 1867
........ 2 Thomas Baker b: Abt. 1816
........ 2 Samuel Baker b: Abt. 1816
........ 2 Rebecca Baker b: Abt. 1820