Baker, James Sears

Baker, James Sears a Congregational minister, was born in Marcellus, N. Y., Feb. 9.1822. He graduated at the Geneva Medical College in 1843, and practiced medicine in Sully and in Collamer — two years in the former and three in the latter place; after which he removed to Marcellus, where he practiced as a dental surgeon from 1851 to 1865. Having been ordained in 1865, he was installed pastor in the following year at Madison, N. Y. In 1867 he was acting pastor at Otisco, holding this position until Dec. 1, 1872. From 1873 until the date of his death he was acting pastor of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches in Onondaga Valley. He died at Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1875. See Cong. Quarterly, 1876, p. 420.