William Henry Baker. Winn Parish, Louisiana

Contributed by Greggory E. Davies

120 Ted Price Lane

Winnfield, LA  71483

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William Henry Baker

Is the name of father and son.  The elder Baker lives in Houston, Texas where he reared his family

and where our subject was brought up.  His father was a stock man and in 1872 married Miss

Nannie E. Mays.  Mr. Baker still lives but his wife died March 5, 1900.



The younger Baker was born in Houston, Texas, Jan. 15, 1874, was educated in the Texas public

schools and eleven years ago became a contractor and builder, and seven years since he came to

Louisiana is one of the popular and useful contractors of Winnfield, and easily one of our captains

of industry.  "Tis said that he can do more work with smaller force in a given time than any man in

this country.  Honest and square, with pluck and force.  We would as _______ have Mr. Baker

do us a job in his line as any man living.



Dec. 22, 1904, he married Miss Olive Wallace, a daughter of Judge J. T. Wallace.  They have an

excellent home on Main Street and one child to brighten it.  



Mr. Baker is a Woodman, and has acquired a neat property in the city.  When asked about the

development of Winn Parish and north Louisiana he laconically replied, "No section better."  He

thinks however we must have good roads and then intensive farming and truck growing will

follow.  



His motto:  "Fair dealings in business and to do my part in my country's advancement."





(This article was copied from The Guardian newspaper, Vol. XXVII, No. 8-9, published

September-October, 1907 at Winnfield, LA., and on file at the Watson Memorial Library,

Cammie Henry Archives, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA., and submitted by

Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, LA.)