LEWIS MELVILLE GEORGE BAKER
The first paternal ancestor of L. M. G. Baker, of whom we
have an exact record, was Jacob Baker. He had a son, Joseph
Baker, who married Catherine Todd, of Caroline, and who established
the first female academy in the Valley of Virginia.
This school was located at Winchester.
Cecil Baker, son of Professor Joseph Baker, married Pauline
Jane George, daughter of Lewis Melville George and Sarah Elizabeth
Samuel, granddaughter of Lewis George and Agnes Wilson,
and great granddaughter of John Dudley George, Revolutionary
soldier, who married Lucy Dickinson. Colonel Archibald Samuel,
grandfather of Cecil Baker, on the maternal side, was a soldier
in the war of 1812, a member of the General Assembly of Virginia,
Sheriff of Caroline and prominent in the social life of the county.
Cecil Baker was lieutenant in the Ninth Virginia Cavalry in the
Civil War and was killed in action when but little over twenty-one
years of age. He left two children, Cecil and Lewis Melville
George. Cecil married Mary Linda Allen, of Bowling Green,
a half sister to Thomas C., and Aubrey Valentine, and conducted
a mercantile business at Athens, Tenn., for some time. He died
in 1920.
Lewis Melville George Baker was born in Caroline in 1864
and was educated in the University of Virginia, from which he
received the degrees of Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts,
Bachelor of Philosophy and Master of Arts. He founded the
Baker-Himel school in Knoxville which ranked as one of the finest
preparatory schools in the South and he presided with distinction
over this school for some time. He entered upon the practice of
law in 1900, entering into partnership with Webb and McClung
in 1902 and later became one of the firm of Webb, Baker and
Egerton. He ranks among the strong lawyers of the South and
is a member of Knox County Bar Association, Tennessee State
Bar Association and American Bar Association. Mr. Baker
married Blanche McClung Tomeny and has issue: (1) L. M. G.,
Jr., (2) William Cecil, (3) Douglas Dudley and (4) Catherine
Blanche. The eldest son served in Battery 3, 114th Field Artillery
in World War and his second son, William Cecil, in the aviation
department.
The Baker arms are thus described:
Ar on a fesse nublee betw. three keys, sa., a tower triple towered
of the first.
