History Of Baker County, Oregon
Baker County is one of the List of counties in Oregon, 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 16,668. The county seat and largest city is Baker City, Oregon, Baker City. The county was organized on September 22, 1862, when a portion of Wasco County, Oregon, Wasco County was partitioned off. The new county's area was reduced in 1864 when Union County, Oregon, Union County was partitioned off, and again in 1887 when Malheur County, Oregon, Malheur County was partitioned off. The county's lines were last adjusted in 1901 when a parcel was added to the county. Baker County was Oregon Geographic Names, named for Edward Dickinson Baker, a senator from Oregon who was killed at Battle of Ball's Bluff, Ball's Bluff, a battle of the American Civil War, Civil War in Virginia in 1861. The county is part of the county definition of Eastern Oregon. History The first groups from the eastern U.S. following the Oregon Trail p ...
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Edward Dickinson Baker
Edward Dickinson Baker (February 24, 1811October 21, 1861) was an American politician, lawyer, and US army officer. In his political career, Baker served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator from Oregon. He was also known as an orator and poet. A long-time close friend of the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, Baker served as U.S. Army colonel during both the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. Baker was killed in the Battle of Ball's Bluff while leading a Union Army regiment, becoming the only sitting U.S. senator ever to be killed in a military engagement. Early life and education Born in London in 1811 to school teacher Edward Baker and Lucy Dickinson Baker, poor but educated Quakers, the boy Edward Baker and his family left England and emigrated to the United States in 1816, arriving in Philadelphia, where Baker's father established a school. Ned, as he was called, attended his father's school before qui ...
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