George Ellis Baker (March 16, 1816 – October 2, 1887) was an American merchant, town clerk and state legislator.
[1] His brother was Fisher Ames Baker,[2] a prominent and successful attorney who had served in the Civil War.
The business was not a success, so he relocated again to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the early 1840s before opening another shoe store on Maiden Lane in Manhattan.
In 1850, he was elected on the Whig ticket to the New York State Assembly which met in Albany from January 7 to July 11, 1851, during the first year of Washington Hunt's governorship.
[17][18] His widow died in 1903 and was also buried in Washington, D.C.[9][18] Through his son George, he was a grandfather of Evelyn Baker (who married Howard Bligh St. George); Florence Bellows Baker (who married William Goadby Loew); and George Fisher Baker Jr.[19] (who married Edith Brevoort Kane; their daughter Elizabeth married John M. Schiff and their son, George F. Baker III married Frances Drexel Munn,[20] a daughter of Mary Astor Paul and member of the Drexel banking family).