James M. Baker
the Alexandria-Washington Lodge in Virginia. Earl D. Baker Newspapennan and publisher. b. Apr. 14, 1898, Spencer Co., Ind. Associated with ScrippsHoward Newspapers since 1918 in Evansville, Ind., Terre Haute, Ind., Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. President of the Washington Daily News from 1938-1947 and assistant general business manager of ScrippsHoward papers since 1937. Business manager of The San Francisco News since 1947. Raised in Humboldt Lodge No. 42, Terre Haute, Ind. about 1927. 32째 AASR at Evansville, Ind. Member Almas Shrine Temple Wash.
Temple, all of Cleveland. In the AASR (N.J.) he received his 33째 in
1945. Bryant Baker Sculptor. b. July 8, 1881 in London, England. Graduated from Royal Academy of Arts, Lon... don in 1910. His portrait bust of Ed.. ward VII was Queen Alexandra's favorite. He did busts of many English notables and of Prince Olav of
Norway before coming to America in 1916. Here he has made busts from life of President Coolidge, Col. John Coolidge, Senators H. C. Lodge, W. A. Clark, J. H. Bankhead, generals. Pershing, March and Gorgas, Chief Justices White, Taft and Hughes; John Hays Hammond, Herbert Hoover, Newton Baker, Josephus Daniels, Percival Lowell, George Harvey, Cordell Hull and heroic bronze statue of Chief Justice Edward D. White, New Orleans. He has done heroic bronze statues of Grover Cleveland, Millard Fillmore and Young Lincoln at Buffalo, N.Y. For Delaware's Statuary Hall he executed marble statues of patriots Caesar Rodney and John M. Clayton. His Gov. Reuben Fenton statue is at Jamestown, N.Y. and the Bishop Freeman memorial is in the National Cathedral in Washington. His heroic 17-ft. bronze of George Washington at the Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria was unveiled by President Trurnan,Feb.22,1950.Frisidealvvorks in permanent collections include Ero's at Manchester City Art Gallery, Memory at Hull City Art Gallery in England and Pioneer Woman statue in Ponca City, Oklahoma, the latter winning him the Marland competition in a field of 12 top sculptors. Baker is a member of Constitutional Lodge No. 294 at Beverly, Yorkshire, England. He has been instrumental in keeping very much alive the communications between his home lodge in Beverly, England and Beverly Lodge in Massachusetts, as well as
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Howard H. Baker Congressman from Tennessee to 82nd Congress (1951-53). b. Jan. 12, 1902 at Somerset, Ky. Admitted to bar in 1924. Member of Tennessee legislature, 1929-30. Nominee for governor of Tenn. in 1938 and U.s. Senator in 1940. Mason, 32째 AASR and Shriner. James C. Baker Bishop, Methodist Church. b. June 2, 1879 at Sheldon lli. Received degrees from nlinoi~ Wesleyan, Boston University and attended Cornell, College of the Pacific and Univ. of Southern Calif. Entered M.E. ministry iIi 1900 and was organizer and he?-d of the Wesley Foundation Univ. of Ill. (the first Wesley Foundation in the country). Elected bishop of Methodist Episcopal Church in 1928 and assigned to supervision work in Japan, Korea and Manchuria. Later assigned to California area, and a delegate to General Conference in 1916, '20, '28 and Oxford Conference in 1947. President of Council of Methodist Bishops, 1948-49. Member of Acacia Fraternity at Univ. of illinois. Raised in McLean Lodge No. 469, McLean, Ill. in 1906. 32째 AASR at Bloomington, TIL
James M. Baker (1861-1940) Diplomat and government official b. Aug.
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