George Fisher Baker
George Fisher Baker was a U.S. financier and philanthropist.
Baker was born in Troy, New York, to Eveline Stevens Baker and George Ellis Baker, a shoestore owner who was elected in 1850 on the Whig ticket to the New York State Assembly. At 14, young George entered S.S. Seward Institute in Florida, New York, where he studied geography, bookkeeping, history, and algebra. At 16, he was hired as the junior clerk in the New York State Banking Department. He enlisted in the 18th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers at the start of the Civil War, and rose to the rank of first lieutenant and adjutant.
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