Everett Minner Baker, M.D.

EVERETT MINNER BAKER, M. D., physician and surgeon, who is engaged in practice at Valencia, was born December 28, 1870, near Mt. Chestnut, Butler County. Pennsylvania, and is a son of Hiram and Margaret A. (Opre) Baker.
Hiram Baker was born in Muddy Creek Township, Butler County, a son of Jewell Baker, who was one of the early settlers in that section. Jewell Baker had two sons, James and Hiram. The latter passed his entire life in Butler County and died at Brownsdale, in 1904, aged
seventy-six years. He married Margaret A. Opre, who was born at Grove City, Pennsylvania, and survived her husband. They had the following children: Sarah, who married S. Gulick; Lucinda, who married J. W. Williamson; Margaret, who married J. W. Stevenson; James Andrew; Agnes L.; Elmer H.; Gilbert J.; Olive, who married J. M. Starr; Everett Minner; and Charles W.
A boyhood spent on the farm, the foundation of a liberal education laid in the public school — such is the record of the earlier years of Dr. Baker. Better educational advantages were given him at Renfrew, Evans City, later Grove City College, and in the fall of 1893, he entered the Western University of Pennsylvania, where he entered upon the study of medicine. He was graduated from that institution in the spring of 1897, in September of that year he settled at Valencia, and during the eleven years of res'idence here has built up an excellent practice and has become a representative citizen.
In 1900 Dr. Baker was married to Miss Blanche A. Datt, who is a daughter of John Datt, a well known resident of Valencia, and they have one child, Everett Meade. Dr. Baker and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 1073.