Death notice for Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker Jr, 1838-1883

Death notice for Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker Jr, 1838-1883

Died: 5 January 1883, Vancouver, Washington

Death of an Army Officer

Portland, January 6 -- Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker, Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the Columbia, and son of the late ex-Senator Edward Dickinson Baker, died at Vancouver yesterday of apoplexy, aged forty-four. He had been ill only a few minutes. He leaves a wife but no children. The remains will probably be taken by tomorrow night's steamer and buried by the side of his father in Lone Mountain cemetery, San

Francisco.

Reference: Lash, Gary W., 2001, Duty Well Done - Edward Baker's California Regiment (71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry): Butternut and Blue.