Andrus David Baker

1845 - 1922  (76 years)

• Name	Andrus David Baker
  Birth	14 Nov 1845	Crown Point, Essex, NY
  Gender	Male
  Census	14 Aug 1850	Crown Point, Essex, NY ; age 4, born VT, living with parents
  Census	21 Jun 1855	Crown Point, Essex, NY ; age 9, born Essex Co, living with parents
  Census	9 Jun 1860	Bloomfield, Winneshiek, IA ; Andrus D, age 14, born NY, living with parents
  Census	1 Jun 1880	Military, Winneshiek, IA ; A.D., age 34, born NY, merchant, parents born VT/VT
  Census	1885	Military, Winneshiek, IA ; A.D., bage 39, born NY, dry goods merchant
  Census	2 Jun 1900	Sioux City, Woodbury, IA ; age 53, born Nov 1846 in NY, marr 27 yrs, wholesale hardware merchant, parents born VT/NY
  Census	22 Apr 1910	Sioux City, Woodbury, IA ; age 64, born NY, mx1 for 38 yrs, living on income, parents born NY/VT
  Census	7 Jan 1920	Sioux City, Woodbury, IA ; age 73, born NY, parents born NY/VT
  Death	21 Aug 1922	Sioux City, Woodbury, IA
  Burial		Graceland Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA
  Person ID	I16058	Family Tree
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2018

  
  

  Father	William Henry Baker,   b. 4 Aug 1806, Middlebury, Addison, VT d. 23 May 1898, Decorah, Winneshiek, IA (Age 91 years)
  Mother	Pamelia White Clark,   b. 1 Nov 1817, Whiting, Addison, VT d. 29 Nov 1887, Castalia, Winneshiek, IA (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F6064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Louise Jane Hall,   b. Oct 1855, Wisconsin d. 1925, Sioux City, Woodbury, IA (Age ~ 69 years)
  Marriage	13 Nov 1871	Winneshiek Co, IA
  Notes	from "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934" (familysearch.org) On 13 Nov 1871 in Winneshiek Co, IA, A.D. Baker married Lousia J Hall
  Children	+ 1. Roy McKenzie Baker,   b. 17 Jun 1874, Ossian, Winneshiek, IA 2. Claude Andrus Baker,   b. 8 Jul 1876, Ossian, Winneshiek, IA d. 17 Sep 1925, St Paul, Ramsey, MN (Age 49 years) 3. Edna Francis Baker,   b. 14 Apr 1881, Decorah, Winneshiek, IA d. 8 Feb 1942, Evanston, Cook, IL (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F6116	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 May 2017

  
  

• Photos

  Andrus David Baker in 1872 "DAVID ANDRUS BAKER - At 27 years of age" (from Genealogy and history of the Baker, Andrus, Clark, and Adams families, Albert Clark Baker, 1920)

  
  

• Notes

  from "Genealogy and history of the Baker, Andrus, Clark, and Adams families", 1920 My brother Andrus was purely of the Andrus type. At his zenith standing much more than six feet, and weighing over 200 pounds, not fleshy, but a pattern of physical development he surely had a figure to be proud of. As a boy at school, apt, always at the head of his class. I think he absorbed his books easier than any of the family. In temper aggressive, to the extent that he would fight his teacher when punished. He was the only penman in the family, he wrote equally well with either the right or the left hand. He was a natural salesman, always on the alert, saving, thrifty. At 20 he entered business with his brother Henry in Ossian. He was not a natural farmer, and had he continued on a farm, could not have made a great success. Had he been an accountant, he would have been a whirlwind. In the store he was a model, and nothing in the business escaped his notice. At the time of his marriage at 26 he was without doubt the most prosperous man of his age, in the county in which he was living. After disposing of the business in 1886 he looked elsewhere for a favorable location for wholesale trade, and finally settled upon Sioux City as such a point. Here he entered into the wholesale hardware trade with a partner by name Bissell, under the firm name Baker & Bissell. The business seemed to prosper until the panic of 1893, when the town, which had every value inflated to the bursting point, crumbled, and with it his business became involved. From this failure he never recovered. from "Iowa, Death Records, 1921-1940" (familysearch.org) Andrus David Baker, retired, married to Mrs. Louise Baker, born 14 Nov 1845 in NY to William H Baker b NY & Amelia Clark b. NY, died on 20 Aug 1922 in Sioux City, Woodbury, IA of valvular heart disease. Burial on 25 Aug at Graceland Park Cemetery. Informant R.M. Baker.