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BAKER, LEANDER H., physician; residence, Payson; was born in Onondaga, county, N. Y., June 27, 1814. He is the second of a family of four sons and four daughters of Daniels and Elmina (Hanford) Baker. Daniels Baker was a native of Massachusetts; Elmina Hanford, of Connecticut. He was educated chiefly in Fredonia Academy, Cayuga county, and spent some three years in teaching. He read medicine with Dr. S. D. Gross, now Professor of Surgery in Jefferson Medical College, then Professor of Surgery in the Louisville Medical Institute. He graduated from the latter school the 3d of March, 1842, and began practice in St. Louis in June of that year. He continued business there for twenty years. In April, 1862, he was commissioned Surgeon of the 24th Regt. Mo. Inf.; had charge of the Sisters’ Hospital two months, and then went to the field. He was appointed Surgeon in Chief of Division Headquarters in the “Department of the Gulf.” He was mustered out Nov. 1, 1864. On returning from the army he spent a season in Belvue Hospital College, N. Y. He practiced two and one-half years in Quincy, after which he removed to Payson in August, 1869. He married Martha C. Wing, Nov. 5, 1846, who was born in East Hartford, Conn., Aug. 4, 1815. They had six children, two living: Mary E. and Jennie. Dr. Baker and wife are members of the Congregational church. They own a residence and lot in the village.