Identifier: lifecharacterof00bake (find matches)
Title: Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Charles H. (Charles Hinckley), b. 1864
Subjects: Baker, William Taylor, 1841-1903 Electric power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Premier press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he was thelast one left, and until the price had dropped in conse-quence of the selling movement to a level which en-tirely deprived him of any profit. More might be said of his business career if spacepermitted. Let me instead, however, return for amoment to his private life and to the time when thefamily moved to their first Michigan Avenue resi-dence. Father at that time was a master of the shot-gun and very frequently went duck hunting upon thepreserves of the Tollaston Gun Club some distancefrom Chicago, of which club he was a member. Hewas instinctively a good shot and brought home manya trophy of the sport. He was also fond of horsesand drove to and from his business behind one of thefastest trotters in the city, and he kept fine carriagehorses and equipages for the use of the family as well. Father remained a widower until 1879 when hemarried Mrs. Anna Franklin (Phipps) Morgan ofTroy, New York, the widow of Mr. Azro B. Morgan,whom he had met in the course of his business oper-
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The Chicago Homestead. CAREER IN CHICAGO 75 ations. They spent their honeymoon extending over aperiod of several months, in European travel. Duringhis absence, the handsome residence at the corner ofA/tichigan Avenue and 23d Street was in course oferection, but was not completed until several monthsafter their return. Here the family lived until sometime after his death, with the exception of the sum-mer seasons, which were spent in Exmoor Cottage,their summer home upon the golf links at HighlandPark. Father was an adept and great devotee ofgolf, and this recreation did much to keep him ingood health the last years of his life. He looked verylittle older than his sons when he was sixty years old.He furnished his house with costly works of art andlibraries, and while not ostentatious in arranging hissurroundings and comforts, his environment was sug-gestive of the abode of a scholar and a prince. Fathers second wife and our stepmother came asthe two oldest of us were getting ready for

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