Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., Boone Co.

EDWIN H. BAKER, son of Stewart and Elizabeth (Moore) Baker, was born in Boone County, Ky., May 21, 1841. His father is a native of Montgomery County, Ky., and his mother of Rockbridge County, Va. His maternal grandfather, Hugh Moore, was an early settler at Big Boone Spring, in the southern part of Boone County, and did good service in the war of 1812, while his paternal grandfather, Edwin Baker, a native of South Carolina, born in 1704 [sic], settled in the same neighborhood, also took an active part in the same war and died in 1883. They were respectively of Irish and German descent. Stewart Baker was born in 1810, was taken to
Boone County in 1815, and died in 1866. Edwin H. Baker was reared a farmer. He has five farms, comprising 800 acres, within the county limits. He has served as magistrate of his district, and in August, 1886, was elected county judge for a term of four years. In February 1879, he married Miss Lula, a daughter of Samuel Huey (who was born in Virginia
in 1810, and killed in a heavy storm in 1860), but for thirteen years previous to his marriage he was engaged in steam-boating on the Ohio River. He is a member of the Baptist Church.