jb10: Frank Harvey BAKER (12 Apr 1882

Frank Harvey BAKER

12 Apr 1882 - 31 Aug 1969

BIRTH: 12 Apr 1882, Salinas, Monterey Co., CA
DEATH: 31 Aug 1969, Sacramento, CA
BURIAL: Garden Cemetery, Gardnerville, Douglas Co., NV

Father: Franklin Sawin BAKER
Mother: Mabel HARVEY

Family 1 : Ida May MCGUIRE

MARRIAGE: 16 Sep 1911, Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA

Franklin Harvey BAKER, b. ABOUT 1912, Berkeley, CA; d. ABOUT 1998
John Mack BAKER

 
                                                _Francis BAKER ___
                         _George BAKER ________|
                        |                      |_Nancy Ann DAVIS__
 _Franklin Sawin BAKER _|
|                       |                       _Isaac SAWIN _____+
|                       |_Almira SAWIN ________|
|                                              |_Martha WHEAT ____+
|
|--Frank Harvey BAKER 
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|                                               _Absalom HARVEY __
|                        _Isaac Julian HARVEY _|
|                       |                      |_Eleanor JULIAN __+
|_Mabel HARVEY _________|
                        |                       __________________
                        |_Sarah MELLETT _______|
                                               |__________________

Notes:

(Copy from Dr. John Baker)

Dr. F. Harvey Baker was the second certified veterinarian to be licensed in Nevada and had a long and successful career in Gardnerville, Nevada. He was also a champion sharpshooter, an active musician and conductor, and a ten year member of Troop C of the California National Guard which saw active duty in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

Rusty, "the horse that went to prison" was a difficult and unmanageable animal. After bucking off his son, when returning home from college for a visit, Dr. Baker took the horse to the State prison farm where he worked as a veterinarian, and put an inmate who had horse taming experience, in charge of breaking the horse. Rusty was finally tamed. Dr. Baker and the horse trainer, who had become a trusted inmate, took many rides beyond the prison farm's fence. One day, the horse trainer took a ride out of the farm and never returned. He married a woman in Nevada and settled down and had a family. His wife finally convinced him that he needed to turn himself in to serve the rest of his sentence.

From Isaac Julian Harvey: California Pioneer, by Florence Margaret Baker, edited by Jo Ann Sloan Rogers (Monterey County Historical Society, Inc., Salinas, California: 1987), page 399:

WEDDING OF HARVEY BAKER

On Saturday Miss Ida M. McGuire and F. Harvey Baker were married in the rectory of an Episcopal clergyman in Oakland. Both are natives of Salinas and both very much esteemed. Miss McGuire is a member of the Episcopal Church and choir and of Troop C Red Cross. Mr. Baker was a member of Troop C for ten years, was a member of the Salinas City band, of the orchestra and of the fire department. He will be graduated from the San Francisco veterinary college in April 1912, and until then they will live in San Francisco. They have the best wishes of all Salinas for their happiness.

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