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BAKER, HIBBERT ROBERT (1846-1934)

BAKER, HIBBERT ROBERT, Methodist minister, Derby mission, 1886-89; b. Athol, N.S., 1 Jan 1846, s/o Luther Baker and Letitia Keiver; m. 1876, Laura Elizabeth Smith, of Annapolis, N.S.; d. Victoria, B.C., 9 Oct 1934.

Hibbert R. Baker was educated at Mount Allison College (BA 1873, MA 1889) and taught for a time at Mount Allison Academy. He was ordained in 1876 and had numerous assignments, mostly at rural locations in the three Maritime provinces. He was at Margate, P.E.I., before being appointed to Derby in 1886, and when he left in 1889 he went to Richmond, N.B. It was stated that, "in all his preaching, Mr Baker struck the evangelistic note."

Soon after the death of his wife, Laura E. Smith, in 1912, Baker moved to Victoria, B.C. He lived in retirement there and in England for more than twenty years. He was one of the oldest United Church ministers in Canada when he died in 1934, at age eighty-eight. He left two daughters and one son, R. Smith Baker, who was also a Methodist and United Church minister.

Sources

[b] Churchman 24 Oct 1934 [m] Watchman 26 Aug 1876 [d] official records / Advocate 1 Sep 1886, 1 May 1889; Cornish; New Outlook 16 Jan 1935; Walkington


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