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Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 4621-00001
Title: Isaac Post Baker
Date: ca. 1930
Summary: Isaac Post Baker sits for a portrait wearing a dark suitcoat and tie with a white round-collared shirt.||Isaac P. Baker was born at Weston, Mo., on July 20, 1855. He attended Central College at Fayette, Mo. Baker worked closely with his father, John Baker, in his management of the St. Paul and St. Louis Packet Company. He later worked as an agent for several ship lines. Around 1880 he went to work for T.C. Power as general agent for the Benton Transportation Company in Bismarck, N.D. By 1883 he co-owned several of the line's boats. As the steamboat traffic on the Missouri River went into decline, Baker diversified his business, becoming involved in banking, ranching, real estate, and grain elevators. Baker continued to operate boats on the Missouri River between Bismarck and Glendive until the 1920s. Baker was also involved in politics, serving a brief term as Bismarck's mayor and as a member of various commissions dealing with Missouri River issues. He died Jan. 28, 1938.
Red ID: PH_I_92056 Image ID: 47889 Image Notes: A4621-00001

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