years and was in a number of small battles and several important ones. On one occasion he sustained a gunshot wound in the right arm but he lost no time from active service and he was honorably discharged at Macon City, Missouri, March 14, 1865.     Upon his return home Mr. Baker took charge of his mother's property and business interests. The following year he was married in Pike county on the 13th of September, 1866, to Miss Susan C. Gooden, whom he brought to the farm and with whom he traveled life's journey happily until March 12, 1890, when she was called to her final home, her remains being interred in Prairie Mound cemetery. There were four children born of that union. On the 3d of March, 1904, Mr. Baker was again married, his second union being with Josephine Alcorn, a native of this county. His children are: Sherman, who is married and resides in Los Angeles, California; Mary F., the wife of David Rupert, a resident farmer of Martinsburg township; Lilly E., the wife of Ernest Ellis, of the state of Washington; and Logan, at home.     Mr. Baker has built a good neat residence upon his farm, also substantial barns and outbuildings, has fenced the place and by this means has divided it into fields of convenient size. He has made most of the present improvements upon the property, which indicates his careful supervision, his practical methods and his keen insight into agricultural affairs. In connection with general farming he raises and feeds stock for the market and feeds a carload or two of hogs each year. In this business he has won prosperity and is regarded as one of the successful agriculturists of the county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, which he has supported since casting his first presidential ballot for General Grant in 1868, save on one occasion. He has taken an active and helpful part in political work and has been elected and served for three consecutive terms as supervisor, acting on a number of committees while a member of the board. including the finance and other important committees. He has been chairman of the township committee and as a friend of the public-school system he did effective service for the schools, acting as a member of the board of education. He belongs to Pittsfield lodge, A. F. & A. M., and has also taken the Royal Arch and commandery degrees but is now demitted. In matters of citizenship he has been as loyal to his country and her welfare in days of peace as when he wore the blue uniform of the nation upon southern battle-fields. His life has been characterized by untiring activity in business, by fidelity in citizenship, by loyalty in friendship and by trustworthiness in all life's relations.                                                   ______________                                                  GEORGE H. DUNN      George H. Dunn, who after long  years of active and honorable connection with farming interests in Pike county is now living retired in Perry, was born in Morgan county, Illinois, February 28, 1838. His parents were Harvey and Angeline (Milligan) Dunn and the family is of Irish lineage in the paternal line, representatives of the name having located in Providence, Rhode Island, prior to the establishment of American independence. Following the Revolutionary war they became residents of the state of New York and it was there that Harvey Dunn was born. In his boyhood days he went to Indiana and subsequently removing to Ohio was there connected with building operations. In 1837 he came to Morgan county, Illinois, locating at Meredosia and was connected with railroad construction on what is now the Wabash line. The year 1840 witnessed his arrival in Pike county and after engaging in general merchandising in Chambersburg for some years he sold out there and bought a farm in Chambersburg township whereon he remained until his death, which occurred when he was sixty-two years of age. He wielded a wide influence over public thought and opinion in Pike county and was called by his fellow townsmen to act as their representative in the constitutional convention of 1847. He filled various local offices and was an advocate of democratic principles, while his religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Angeline Milligan, was born in Massachusetts and was descended from Puritan