George T. Baker, 1928 bio

BAKER

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Date: 12/22/2003 at 22:13:34

GEORGE T. BAKER.
Member of Board of Education, was born July 9, 1857, on a farm in Iowa county, Iowa. He was educated in the district schools of Iowa, Hall's school for boys, at Ellington, Conn., McClain's academy at Iowa City, and the Iowa state university. He remained one year at the state university and then completed four years of special work in civil engineering at Cornell university, Ithaca, class of 1879. During the years from 1879 to 1889 he was engaged in railway location, construction and maintenance work, after which he was chief engineer for the high bridges built across the Mississippi river at Muscatine and Clinton, and consulting engineer of the high bridge at Winona, Minn. From 1893 until January, 1910, he was engaged in general construction work on railways, paving, sewerage, water works, and heavy building construction. Served as a member of the general assembly in the twenty-sixth regular and special session, was a member of the house of representatives from Scott county, was elected mayor of the city of Davenport in 1898, serving two years and was delegate at large to the democratic national convention in 1900. A democrat in politics.

-source: Iowa Official Register, 1927-1928; Biographies of State Officials.