Nelson Baker
Nelson Henry Baker was a Roman Catholic priest and church administrator in the Buffalo, New York area. At the time of his death in 1936, he had developed a city of charity under the patronage of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York. It consisted of a minor basilica, an infant home, a home for unwed mothers, a boys orphanage, a boys protectory, a hospital, a nurses home, and a grade and high school.
Nelson Baker was born in Buffalo, New York on February 16, 1842 to Lewis Becker and Caroline Donnellan, parents who were ethnic German and Irish, during a period when the rate of immigration was increasing from Europe. He was the second eldest of four sons. His father, a German Evangelical Lutheran, was a retired mariner. Lewis had opened a grocery and general goods store on Batavia Street in Buffalo. He is said to have instilled an astute business sense in young Nelson, who worked in the store after graduating from high school in 1858. Nelsons mother Caroline was a devout Irish Catholic, and the children were all baptized and reared as Catholic. Nelson was baptized a Roman Catholic in 1851, aged 9.
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