Personal Life
Baker married Elizabeth Leopold, a graduate of Wilson College, on July 5, 1902. They had two daughters and a son.
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Shaker Heights, Ohio, on Christmas Day, December 25, 1937. He was buried in Lake View Cemetery. His wife died on August 24, 1951.
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