Axcel C. Baker

As printed in 1916

AXCEL C. BAKER. M.D.

Prominent in the medical profession of Fergus Falls, Otter Tail county, Minnesota, is Dr. Axcel C. Baker, who is a native of Rochester, Minnesota, and the son of Ole and Lena (Olson) Baker.

Doctor Baker's father and mother came to America about 1870 and located near Rochester, Minnesota, where the father operated a hardware store for several years. He is now living retired.

Axcel C. Baker obtained his early education at Rochester, Minnesota. Afterward, he attended the University of Minnesota and was graduated from the academic department in 1807. lie made a splendid record at the University of Minnesota and one of which he has every reason to lie very proud. After finishing the academic work at the University of Minnesota, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Dr. Baker attended

Northwestern University Medical School, at Chicago, and was graduated from that institution in 1901, receiving the degree of Doctor of.Medicine.

After spending two years in the Wesley hospital, at Chicago, as an inter, he came to Fergus Falls in 1903 and here engaged in the practice of medicine. During the past twelve years his practice has steadily increased and he now enjoys a large and prosperous patronage.

By Doctor Baker's marriage to Catherine Hudson, the daughter of Thomas C. and Eliza Hudson, there have been horn four children, Norman H., Katheryn, Charles E. and Mary.

Doctor Baker is prominent in the Masonic circles of Fergus halls. Being a member of Corner Stone Lodge No. 99. He is also a member of the Park Region Medical Society, the Minnesota State Medical Association and the American Medical Association.

As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.