Moses Nelson Baker

Moses N. Baker (January 26, 1864 – February 7, 1955) was a noted editor and author in the field of drinking water history and technology.

Baker was born in 1864 in the small town of Enosburg, Vermont, which is located in the northern part of the state a few miles from the Canada–US border.

This publication and the consolidated weekly Engineering News-Record which began on April 1, 1917, were the definitive sources of news about advances in the control and treatment of drinking water and sewage for decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[1] Baker collected a large library of books and source documents that he used to write his most important book, The Quest for Pure Water: The History of Water Purification from the Earliest Records to the Twentieth Century, which was first published in 1948.

[3] He donated his collection to the American Water Works Association which transferred it to the Engineering Societies Library in New York City in 1945 for safe keeping.