This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JCC.2ACEB/8818 Message Board Post: P. D. Baker, M. D. P. D. Baker was born in Carroll Township, November 19, 1848, and is a son of Daniel and Margaret (Lehmer) Baker. Great great grandfather Baker was a native of Germany, and great grandfather Daniel Baker a native of Paradise Township, this county. Grandfather Daniel Baker was also born in Paradise Township in 1792; was a weaver and died in 1853. The father of our subject is also a weaver, and followed his trade in Paradise Township until 1842, when he came to Carroll Township, where he is engaged in farming. Dr. P. D. Baker was reared on the farm until sixteen years of age; he then attended the normal school at Dillsburg, and the York County Normal School and the York County Academy, and subsequently taught in the common schools and in the academy a number of terms. In 1870 he began the study of medicine under Drs. G. L. and J. M. Shearer, of Dillsburg, and during the sessions of 1972-73-74 attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, graduating in t! he spring of 1874, since then he has been in constant practice in this township. To the Doctor’s marriage with Miss. Kate Kershey, of Washington Township, in 1874, two children have been born: Daniel T. and Maggie J. Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor