Brig. Gen. James Heaton Baker

   FamilySearch ID: LLMZ-3S3. Find a Grave ID: 7418004.

  General Notes:

He was secretary of state in Ohio and also in Minnesota, commissioner of pensions under President Grant, register of consolidated land office at Boonville, Mo., surveyor general of Minnesota., p456

Military: Brigadier General in the Civil War., p456

Married three times although his second wife is not mentioned in his obituary - only record is in FS sources 1875 marriage record. ¹⁹³

  Research Notes:

http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/History/jameshbaker.htm

  Events

• residence, 1875, Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. ²⁶⁴

• Biography: Civil war. Minnesota in the Civil and Indian wars, 1861-1865; v. 1
https://tinyurl.com/yg3bcbjc

• Biography: Extensive. http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/History/jameshbaker.htm

• Cemetery: Glenwood Cemetery: Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN. Strangely same name of a cemetery as Rose is buried in. Hers,though, in Washington D.C., his in Mankato.

James married Rose Lucia Thurston, daughter of Reuben Harris Thurston and Mary Morse Brooks, 24 Sep 1851 in Delaware County, OH.²⁶³ (Rose Lucia Thurston was born 29 Apr 1831 in Granville, Licking Co., OH, died 20 Mar 1873 in Washington, D.C. and was buried in Washington, D.C..)

James next married Mary Eliza Capen 19 Apr 1875 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York ²⁶⁴.^,265 (Mary Eliza Capen was born 5 Mar 1831 in Boston, Mass. ²⁶⁴ and died 20 Jan 1917 in East Orange, NJ ²⁶⁶.)

James next married Zulima E Bartlett 23 Dec 1879 in Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN.²⁶⁴ (Zulima E Bartlett was born 10 Nov 1851 in Paris, Edgar, Illinois, United States ²⁶⁴ and died 20 Apr 1932 ²⁶⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

This marriage is from FS based on a marriage record that seems dubious. In the Application for the License he is 21 and she is 18.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-BGSX-9V?i=1037&cc=1803974

"Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-BGSX-9V?cc=1803974&wc=MRJR-4WL%3A146271101 : 15 May 2020), 004540648 > image 1038 of 1909; county courthouses, Minnesota.