DAVIS A. BAKER
ASHFORD: Merchant
Davis A. Baker has twice been a member of the general assembly, the first term occurring in 1867, when his colleagues from Windham county included Henry M. Cleveland from Brooklyn, George Danielson from Killingly, Thomas Tallman and Lucius Briggs of Thompson, and Frank S. Burgess of Plainfield. Mr. Baker was also a member of the house in 1887. The local offices which he has held include that of acting school visitor for seventeen years, constable and collector two years, selectman five years, judge of probate eight years, town clerk and treasurer eighteen, and was postmaster under President Cleveland’s administration. He is one of the leading and most successful members of the democratic party in his town. He was educated at the Ashford Academy and the State Normal school at New Britain, and began life as a public school teacher, proving himself especially adapted to that avocation. He was a contractor and builder for a number of years, but for the past decade or more he has devoted himself exclusively to mercantile interests, managing a prosperous business in that line. His two sons are associated with him. The wife of Mr. Baker, Miss Eliza H. Walbridge, is still living. Mr. Baker was born in Ashford, October 28, 1834, and has spent his life in that town, where he is thoroughly honored and esteemed.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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