N. F. BAKER, M. D

(From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 616-617.)
Transcribed by Kris Breid, 24 November 2004

N. F. BAKER, M. D. Doctor Baker, who has been engaged in the practice of medicine successfully in this county for about twelve years, was born in Nodaway county, Missouri, on the 10th of December, 1845, and was one of seven children of Thomas Baker and wife, nee Elizabeth Owens, the father a native of Kentucky, but the mother born and reared in this State. The father came to Missouri with his parents when a youth thirteen years of age. They settled in Callaway county where Thomas Baker grew to manhood on the farm.

In 1840 he went to Lexington where he was married and afterwards located in Nodaway county. Ten years after N. F.’s (the doctor’s) birth, in 1855, the family removed to Texas where the subject of the present sketch was reared and educated. In 1865 he began the study of medicine under Doctor Owen, his uncle, and the following year entered the St. Louis Medical College of Missouri, in which he continued through the regular sessions until his graduation in 1868.

In the meantime his parents had returned to Callaway county and settled in Bourbon township, where they now reside, and here the doctor engaged in practice, locating at McCredie in 1872. His natural aptitude for the medical profession, together with his thorough education for the practice, soon placed him in an enviable position as a physician and he came to be regarded as one of the leading practitioners of this section of the county. He continued practice at McCredie with steadily increasing success and influence until 1883, when he was induced by the solicitations of prominent citizens in and around Fulton to locate at this city which he did, and he has since been engaged in the practice here.

The doctor has met with very material encouragement in his profession at this place since his removal, and he has every promise of going to the front here in the extent and value of his practice as he already is in skill and ability as a physician. Personally he has many of the qualities that make men respected and esteemed, and he enjoys the good will and confidence of all who know him. In February, 1870, he was married to Miss Mary Culbertson, a most amiable and attractive lady, a daughter of Joseph Culbertson, of this county. They have six children: Henry Farris, Lena A., Sallie I., Frank Fleming, Willie B., and an infant daughter, Mary Nesbit. The doctor and wife are both members of the Presbyterian church.

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