The record-union., 1892-12-22
ANOTHER PIONEER GONE.
ApopIexy Ends the Life of Livingston
Low Baker.
The Attack Came as He Was Pre-
pairing to Retire One of the
Argonauts of Forty-Nine.

! The reaper of death was busy with his
J scythe in the ranks of leading citizens of
/ San Francisco on Tuesday night. In
addition to the deaths OF f. Ii. Miller
and John Q. Brown, referred to else
where, there was received yesterday the
announcement that another prominent
Californian and former Sacramentan,
/ Livingston Low Baker, of the firm of
Baker & Hamilton, had also died sud
denly at his home in san Francisco from
stroke of apopleXy.
/ The fatal stroke came without warming
Of any kind. On Tuesday Mr.. Baker
was at his Office on Pine and Market
streets attending to business. Owing to
stroke Of paralysis, with which lie was
stricken some weeks ago, Mr.. Hamilton
has not been able to be at the store, and
the burden Of the entire business has de-
/ VOWED upon his partner, who worked
early and late.
/ Alr. Baker seemed in very jOviai spirits
/ during the day. lie remained in the
/ ONCE until 900 O'Clock in the afternoon,
/ when he Went 10 his home on tie corner
! OF franklin and Washington streets.
/ Atter dinner he and his wife went out
and returned home between 10 and ii
4 O'clock.
I Up to this time Mr.. Baker had no
symptoms OF illness or preinonitior OF
/ death. Suddenly, as lie was apout to pre-
( pare 10 retire, he was struck with III Of
/ dizziness, the first signs Of apoplexy.
/ I1e reeled over ana his lace assumed
/ livid tint
lie almost Immediately became uncon-
srious, and Brs. BreyIOgle and Palmer
| were summoned. They Immediately pro-
hOunced the case one OF apOpieXy and
! applied the usual remedies. The patient
| SecMei 70 rally and was progressing
! nicely, WHOM at O'Clock a second attack
| TOOK place. which eliminated il death at
| -:l5 yesterday morning.
An examination showed that blood
vessel had burst in the back Of the head
near the base OF the brain.
The sad tldings were not told Mr. Ham
liton, as 1t was feared the shock would
aggravate his present serious illness. He
IS lying in helpless condition at his resi-
denca. and when she remark ed that Mir.
Baker had not called upon him as usual,
he was informed that he was very sick.
james Carolan, the brother-in-law Of Mr..
Hamilton, Will probably look after tho
business Of Baker d Hamilton until other
arrangements can he made.
deceased was one OF the foremost and
wldest-lrown merchants in the state.
| having lived here since 1919, in which
year he arrived from Boston, coming by
way Oh tite Idnalna IStQmuS.
Very soon after his arrival Mr.. Baker
Went 10 the mines and tried his fortune as
/ a gOlG-seeker at Mormon Island. on the
American River. He soon forsook the
miners life for a mercantile one, how
ever, and, returning to the then booming
canvas city OF Sacramento, entered the
employ OF Colonel Warren, proprietor OF
| a seed store in the same locality where
Bak " namlltOn'S StOT0.nOW stands
-Four years later Mr.. Baker entered into
partnership with Robert NJ. Hamilton,
which relation existed between them
ever since. Up 10 1851 Mr.. Baker made
his home IN Sacramento, but in that year
| he removed to san Francisco to person
ally conduct a branch of the firms hard
ware house III That city, MIR. Hamilton re-
manning here until ten or twelve years
ago, when he, TOO, removed To San Fran
cisco, leaving the management Of the
company's extensive business here in the
hands OF Z. II. Hubbard. Tie firm also
has large agricultural implement fac
tory at Benicia.
Deceased was born in Portland, Me-.
August y, 1927, and was therefore IS
years Of age. In 1864 he married Caro-
line Wakefield of Boston, and their ONLY
son, Wakefield Baker, aged - years. now
lives in san Francisco. His wife died
few years later, and Mr.. Baker married
a daughter OF the late Rev. DR.. A. l.
Stone. Of the five children resulting
| from this union, three are living. and
Mrs. Baker also survives her husband.
|. Mr.. baker was Captain of one of the
first military companies organized in this
city. He never held any political Office,
though often solicited to do so. He has.
however, been President Of the San Fran
cisco Chamber Of Commerce. of the So
ciety of Pioneers and Of the San Francisco
Art Association. All old-time Sacra-
mentanS speak of the deceased as one of
/ the most upright and generous of men.
and his sudden death is widely deplored.
1t is thought that Mr.. Baker left an es-
tate worth at least million and a half
dollars az the result of forty years Of close
application to business.