Milo Samuel Baker (July 19, 1868 – January 4, 1961) was an American botanist, specializing in plants of the northern coastal region of California, as well as the genus Viola.
[2][3] In 1875 Milo Samuel Baker moved with his family to Tehama County, California.
[4] He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in chemistry[1] in 1895.
After working as a farmer and rancher[1] in Kenwood,[4] he was a professor of botany from 1922 to 1945 at Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC).
[3] Baker did pioneering research on the flora of eastern Shasta, Modoc, and Lassen counties.