From the original family of the former descended the poet and humorist, James Whitcomb Riley, and from the latter, the philosopher and preacher.

[citation needed] Baer also worked as a cartoonist and furnished cartoons and articles to newspapers.

[3] Baer was elected as a member of the Nonpartisan League[4] to the Sixty-fifth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Henry T. Helgesen, and reelected to the succeeding Congress (August 10, 1917 – March 3, 1921).

He resumed activities as a cartoonist and journalist for Labor, the newspaper of the National Railroad Union.

[citation needed] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress