On 1 June 1900 John Baker was a 40 year old widower who worked as a wiper in the railroad shops. He had emigrated from Holland in 1870 and was a naturalized citizen. He lived in a house on Third Street one house from Rittenhouse Avenue that he rented with his three children, Nellie, 17, Garrett, 14, and Gertrude, 11, all at school. 656On the 1905 Wisconsin Census, John Baker, a 45 year old railroad employee, born in Holland, lived in Bayfield, Wisconsin with his second wife Rosie, 42, son Garrett, 19, daughter Gertrude Baker, 16, and step daughter Emma Hahm, 18. 2438. On 15 April 1910 John Baker, 50, born in Holland, lived on Broad Street in Bayfield, Wisconsin with his second wife of 7 years, Rosa B. Baker, 46, born in Ohio. This was also Rosa’s second marriage. John was a watchman in the locomotive roundhouse. Living with them was his son Garret Baker, 25, single, born in Michigan who worked as an edger in a lumber mill, and Rosa’s daughter Emma K. Daniels, 23, and Emma’s husband of one year, Walter Daniels, 28, born in Michigan, who worked as an Assistant Light House Keeper. 729On 16 January 1920, John Baker, 60, an engine wiper in the round house lived with his wife Rosa B. Baker, 56, in a house they rented on Broad Street in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Rosa’s widowed mother, Anna K. Luick, 76, lived with them. No children lived with them. John had emigrated from Holland at age 10 in 1870 and became a naturalized citizen in 18962436 On 13 April 1930 John Baker, 70, retired, lived with his wife Rosa, 66, in a house they owned worth $2000 on Second Street in Bayfield, Wisconsin. John had first married at age 23 and Rosa at age 22. No children lived with them and Anna K. Luick had died in 1928.2446 John died on 30 September 1932.