The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 994 
A portrait of Barney E. Baker appears in this publication.

BARNEY E. BAKER.

Barney E. Baker is the owner of a fine orchard property comprising eighteen
acres of land on Selah Heights and this is devoted to the raising of apples,
prunes, peaches and pears.	He has been very successful in the conduct of the
business and what he has already achieved indicates that his future career will
be well worth watching.

Mr. Baker is a native son of Pennsylvania. He was born in Millport, that state,
on the 3d of July, 1882, a son of H. D. and Mary (Warner) Baker, the former a
native of New York, while the latter was born in the Keystone state. The father
became a farmer and also engaged in the lumber business, cutting his own timber.
In 1901 he crossed the continent to Yakima county and purchased thirty-two acres
of land on Selah Heights, the tract being all covered with the native sagebrush
when it came into his possession. He still retains twenty-one acres of the
purchase and has eight acres planted in orchards. The remainder is devoted to
diversified farming and both branches of his business are proving profitable
for he wisely and energetically carries on the work and continues the
propagation of his orchards and the production of his crops according to most
progressive methods. In 1893 he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife.
Subsequently he wedded Agnes R. Baker and they still occupy the old home farm.

Barney E. Baker, after acquiring a public school education, assisted in the
cultivation of the home place, early becoming the active assistant of his
father in that line of work. His residence in Yakima county dates from 1901. He
purchased thirty-one acres of land on Selah Heights and cleared it of the
sagebrush with which it was covered. It was naturally arid, as indicated by the
fact that sage was almost the only thing that grew upon it, but he plowed it and
began its improvement. In 1904 he sold that property to his cousin, Earl Baker,
and afterward went to Rupert, Idaho, taking up his abode on Snake river, where
he purchased eighty acres of wild land which he devoted to general farming. He
also opened a blacksmith and carriage shop, which he conducted until 1916, when
he sold his property there and returned to Yakima county. Here he invested in
eighteen acres of land on Selah Heights and has since engaged in the raising of
apples, prunes, peaches. pears and other fruits, having a fine orchard.

On the 22d of November. 1906, Mr. Baker was married to Miss Cora R. Craver, a
native of Wisconsin and a daughter of Peter Craver, who, removing westward, took
up his abode in Mankato, Minnesota, during the girlhood days of Mrs. Baker.

Fraternally, Mr. Baker is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of which he has been a member since reaching the age of twenty-one years. He is
now affiliated with Selah lodge No. 312, I. O. O. F., of which he is a past
grand. His wife is a member of the Christian church. Politically he maintains an
independent course and along business lines he is identified with the Yakima
County horticultural Union. He is a man who has traveled broadly, thus greatly
promoting his knowledge, and his mind is stored with many interesting
reminiscences of his journeys. During 1903 he took a trip to Australia, New
Zealand and other parts of the world in order to see the countries and he has
traveled to a great extent over the United States. He is ever interested in
matters of public concern, in the welfare of his community and of his fellow
townsmen, and he stands for all that is progressive in citizenship.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.