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'74 1VIKN CANADA.. LORAN ELLIS BAKER, the town and province. Mr. Baker hasM.L.C., steamboat manager, been married three times :first, in 1857,Yarmouth, N.S., was bornMay 1 3th, 1831, at Yarmouth. He isthe son of Ellis and Delina Baker. Hispaternal ancestors were from Massachusetts,while his maternal ancestors in 1873, to Mary I., daughter of GeorgeParish, M.D., of Yarmouth and; third,were early settlers in Barrington, ShelburneCounty, N.S. Mr. Baker re-N.S. His family consists of one daugh-B. Creighton, Esq., of Dartmouth,ceived his education in Yarmouth, ter and three sons, living. His daughter,completing it at the Academy in thatplace. He Florence Mary, was married inbecame a clerk in the establishmentof W. to Hon. Walter G. Stopford,1893,H. Townsend, a leadingmerchant of Yarmouth, and Royal Navy, thirdcommander in thein 1855, son of the late Earl of Courtown, hisembarked in general business and ship sons George Prescott, Victor Stanley,building, in company with John Young, Seymour Creighton, are at school.the firm's name beingYoung & Baker. Thispartnership was dissolvedin 1864, and since thenMr. Baker has been operatingalone, as general shipowner, banker, etc. He wasappointed to the LegislativeCouncil in 1878, to representthe Liberal party. In1872, he founded a museumand public library, which isfree to the community. Heis president of the Bank ofYarmouth, the YarmouthSteamship Company, theYarmouth Marine RailwayCompany, Yarmouth AgriculturalSociety, MountainCemetery Company, YarmouthWoollen Mill Company,Grand Hotel Company,and is a director inChurch, Yarmouth. He isone of the most enterprisingmen in Nova Scotia, and itishoped that his importantlifemay be long spared tothe Eastern Assurance Company.He is a member ofthe Episcopal Church, anda vestryman of Trinityto Mary E., eldest daughter of JosephB. Bond, M.D., of Yarmouth; second,in 1870, to Frances L, daughter of H. G.