Title: Joseph Stannard Baker Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1886-1970

Creator:

• Baker, Joseph Stannard, 1838-1912

Call Number: River Falls Mss EG; River Falls Micro 8; Micro 432

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (1 archives box, 1 flat box) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives and Area Research Center, Chalmer Davee Library, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, ; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-River Falls, Chalmer Davee Library / River Falls Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Miscellaneous papers concerning Joseph Stannard Baker, a prominent early resident of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and his family. Included are microfilmed memoirs of Baker, recounting his family's history from their arrival in America in the seventeenth century through his own experiences during the Civil War, first in the Secret Service and then in a regiment; obituaries and memorials for members of the Baker family, including a biographical sketch of his son, author Ray Stannard Baker and a memorial booklet for son Clarence Dwight Baker; a chart and letters, 1893, about Baker's hydraulic ram which provided the first indoor plumbing in St. Croix Falls; letters, 1886-1912, from Baker to his family and three letters between Florence Baker and Ray Stannard Baker; a family history including many anecdotes about Baker's father and his involvement in the temperance and anti-Masonic movements in New York; photocopies of Ray Stannard Baker's family photographs; a folder of information about the James Stannard Baker family; a genealogy of the Ray Stannard Baker family compiled by Jessie Beal Baker; and family group chart.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-rf00eg

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The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, holds a collection of Ray Stannard Baker photographs, including many of the originals represented by photocopies in the two family photograph albums in this collection.

Acquisition Information

Portions loaned for microfilming by James Stannard Baker, Glencoe, Illinois, 1968; portions presented by Mr. Baker in 1977 and 1985; and portions presented by Florence Baker Riegel, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, 1971. Accession Number: M69-004, M71-272, M71-326, M77-180, M85-044

Processing Information

Processed by Donna Sereda, 1997.

River Falls Mss EG Box   1 Folder   1	Baker family obituaries and memorials, 1906-1970
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   2	Letters by J. S. Baker, 1886-1887, 1899, and 1909-1912
Box   1 Folder   3	Letters and other information regarding a ram pump, 1893
Box   1 Folder   4	Letters by Ray S. Baker, 1927, 1944, and undated
Box   1 Folder   5	Family history
Box   1 Folder   6	Family pictures of Ray Stannard Baker, before 1893 (photocopy)
Box   1 Folder   7	Family pictures of Ray Stannard Baker, 1893 to 1910 (photocopy)
Box   1 Folder   8	James Stannard Baker family, 1948 and 1965
River Falls Micro 8/Micro 432 Reel   1	Memoirs
River Falls Mss EG Box   1 Folder   9	Index to unpublished reference material used in memoirs
Box   1 Folder   10	Unpublished reference material, items 1-37
Box   1 Folder   11	Unpublished reference material, items 38-80
Box   2	“American Ancestors of Ray Stannard Baker” compiled by Jessie Beal Baker
Box   2	Genealogy chart