John Stewart Baker (1893 - 1966)

Born 6 Aug 1893 in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, USA

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Died 5 Sep 1966 at age 73 in New Jersey, United States

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Biography

John was born in 1893. He was the son of Stephen Baker and Mary Payson^[1].
Baker graduated from Princeton University in 1915. After leaving Princeton, he joined the Bankers Trust Company. At the outbreak of World War I, he joined the U.S. Navy as an ensign. He was discharged in January 1919. After the war, he joined the Bank of the Manhattan Company where his father was president, becoming an assistant cashier in the Union Square office of the bank in 1919 before being elected a vice president the following year. In 1922, he was elected a director of the Bank and moved to the main office at 40 Wall Street, serving in the Trust department. In 1927, after thirty-four years as president, his father turned the presidency and a considerable stock ownership to the younger Baker who had just turned thirty-four. So, In December 1928, Baker guided the 129-year-old Bank of the Manhattan Company, and served as the first president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. 1930 Census shows he lived in New York with wife "Merian" (Marianne Lathrop Foote, married in 1915) and their children:

Barbara Dumont Baker 1916–2019

John Stewart Baker Jr. 1918–2003

Prissilla L. (Baker) Hill 1920–2010

Stephen B. Baker 1924-1950 ^[2]

John Stewart Baker passed away in 1966 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey. ^[3].

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSKK-WGH : 5 January 2022), John Stewart Baker in entry for Stephen Baker, 1900.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X422-GT6 : accessed 5 June 2022), John S Baker, Manhattan (Districts 0501-0750), New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 554, sheet 4A, line 22, family 55, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1567; FHL microfilm 2,341,302.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84886400/john-stewart-baker : accessed 05 June 2022), memorial page for John Stewart Baker (6 Aug 1893–5 Sep 1966), Find a Grave Memorial ID 84886400, citing Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA ; Maintained by Susan Simon (contributor 47221822) .

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