Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-17

McClure's Magazine says, describing
the Baker homestead at Bow: 1.-The
house itself was small. square box
structure of rudimentary archi-
lecture" My fathers house had a
sloping roof after the prevailing style
of architecture at that date.
McClure's Magazine states: "Alone
of the Bakers, he fAibert) received a
liberal education. ** Mary Baker
passed her first fifteen years at the
ancestral home at Bow. 1t was a
lonely and discriminating existence.
The church supplied the only social
diversion. the district school practi-
cally all the intellectual life.''
Let US see what were the fruits of
this LONELY and discriminating eX-
istence." All my fathers daughters
were given an academic education,
sufficiently advanced SO that they all
taught school dcceptably at various
times and places.
My brother Albert was distinguish
ed lawyer. In addition to my academic
training, / was privately tutored by
him. He was member of the New
Hampshire Legislature, and was
nominated for Congress but died before
the election.
McClure's Magazine calls nv young.
est brother, George Sullivan Baker,
"a workman in a Tilton wooden mill. y
As matter of fact. he was Joint part
ner with Alexander Tilton. and to.
gether they owned large manu-.
featuring establishment in Tilton. n.
II. His military title of Colonel came
from appointment on the staff of the
Governor of New Hampshire.
My oldest brother, Samuel D. Baker,
carried on large business in Boston,
Mass.
Regarding the allegation by Nc.
Cures Magazine that all the family,
''excepting Albert, died of cancer"
[ will say that there was never a
death in my fathers family reported
by physician or post mortem eXami.
nation as caused by cancer.
McClure's Magazine says that ''the
quarrels between Mary, child ten
years old, and her father, a gray-haired
man of fifty, frequently set the house
in an uproar." and adds that these
''fts" were diagnosed by DR.. Laid as
''hysteria mingled with bad temper
My mother often presented my dis
position as exemplary for her Other
children to initiate, saying. "Wher
do you ever see Mary angry?" WheI
the first edition of Science and health
was published. DR.. Laid said to Alex
ander Tilton: ''Read it, for it will dc
you good. 1t Goes not surprise me, il
so resembles the author"
l will relate the following incident
which occurred later in life, as illu
strative of my disposition.
While | was living with DR.. Patter
son at his country home in Rumney
n. H., girl, totally blind, knocked a,
the door and was admitted. She beg
ged to be allowed to remain with me
and my tenderness and sympathy were
such that l could not refuse her
Shortly after, however, my good house
keeper said to me:
'If this blind girl stays with you, /
shall have to leave; she troubles me Sc
much"
1t was not in my heart to turn the
blind girl out, and SO l lost my house
keeper.
My reply to the statement that the
clerks book shows that | Joined the
TiltOn congregational Church at the
age of seventeen is that my religious
experience seemed to eliminate al
twelve years of age. Hence a mistake
may have occurred as to the exact
date of my first church membership
The facts regarding the Mcneil
cOat-of-armS are as follows:
Fannie Mcneil, President Pierce's
niece, afterward Mrs. Judge Potter
presented to me my cOat-Of-armS, say.
ing that it was taken in connection
with her own family cOat-Of-armS.
never doubted the veracity of her gift
L have another coat-Of-armS, which is
of my mothers ancestry. When ]
was last in Washington, d. c., Mrs
Judge Potter and myself knelt in sill.
ent prayer on the mound of her late
father. General John Mcneil, the hero
of Lundy Lane.
Notwithstanding that McClure's
magazine says. MARY Baker completed
her education when she finished
Smiths grammer and reached long III
vision in arithmetic" l vas called by
the Rev r. S. Rust, d. D., Principal
of the Methodist Conference Seminary
at Sanbornton Bridge, to supply the
place of his leading teacher during
her temporary absence.
Regarding my first marriage and
the tragic death of my husband, Nc
Cures Magazine says: "He George
Washington Glover took his bride to
Wilmington. South Carolina, and in
June, 1874, six months after his mar
rage, he died of yellow feveT lie
left his young bride in miserable
plight. She was far from home and
entirely without money or friends.
Glover, however, was free-maSOn,
and thus received a decent burial.
The masons also paid Mrs. Glover's
fare to New York City, where she was
met and taken to her fathers home by
her brother George. Her position
was an embarrassing one. She was
grown woman. with a child, but en-
tirely without means of support. \
Mis-. Glover made only one effort at
self-support. For brief season she
taught school"
My first husband, Major George w.
Glover, resided IN Charleston, South
Carolina. While on business trip to
Wilmington, North Carolina, he was
suddenly seized with yellow fever and
died in about nine days. 1 was with
him on this trip. He took with him
the usual amount of money he would
need on such an excursion. At his
deceaSe, was surrounded by friends,
and their provisions in my behalf were
most tender. The Governor of the
State and his staff, with long pro-
cession, followed the remains of my
beloved one to the cemetery.
The Free Masons selected my escort.
who took me to my fathers home in
Tllton, n. Fl. Ny salary for writing
gave me ample support. / did open an
infant school. hut it was simply for the
purpose of starting that educational
system in New Hampshire. The
rhyme attributed to me by McClure's
Magazine is not mine. but is, I under
stand, paraphrase of silly song of
years ago. Correctly quoted. it is as
follows, so have been told:
Go to Jane Glover,
Tell her | love her.