DAVID E. BAKER, senior member of the well-known firm of Baker & Worrell, jewelers, was born in Amwell township, January 5, 1849, a son of Nathan and Maria (Horn) Baker. His education was received at the common schools and Lone Pine Academy, the chief part of his time being passed in the customary duties of the farm until he wis twenty-four years of age. In l873 he was united in marriage with Miss Emma, daughter of George Swart, of Amwell township, anil two children were born to them, viz.: Winnie Myrtle and Lida Hay. Lida Hay died November 30, 1889. The mother died in 1883, at the age of thirty-four years, and in 1887 Mr. Baker married Lizzie, daughter of Dr. Elijah Hoffman, formerly of Buffalo township, this county, now of Wisconsin. To this marriage one child was born--Frank N. Mr. Baker opened out a general merchandise store at Amity, Amwell township, in 1873, which he carried on until I880, when he sold out. In 1885 he came to Washington borough, where he formed a partnership with George Brady, in the jewelry business, which continued three years, when it was dissolved, and Mr. Baker took as a partner a Mr. McConaghy, but in April, 1891, the latter retired, and Frank N. Worrell took his place, the style of the firm being now, as already intimated, Baker & Worrell, general jeweler. The firm are popular and enterprising, keeping well abreast of the times in their hue. Socially Mr. Baker is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the Improved Order of Heptasophs, and National Union. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a member of the First M. E. Church of Washington. His home is on Prospect avenue, on the edge of South Strabane township.

Text taken from page 276 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed August 1997 by Jean Suplick Matuson of Plano, TX as part of the Beers Project. Published August 1997 on the Washington County,PA pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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