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for a number of years past the house has been well known 

 in the mercantile circles by the firm name of Baker, 

 Marshman & Baker, — the junior partner being his 

 younger son, Fred E. Baker. 



In his early manhood he connected himself with the 

 Unitarian Church, in whose affairs he was quite active, 

 and from which he never separated. Imbibing the earnest 

 spirit of the times, in the thirties of the century, he was an 

 enthusiastic anti-slavery man; afterward a steadfast Whig, 

 and in all his later years an unswerving Republican. 



Mr. Baker's political aspirations were nearly nothing, 

 and the only office which he ever held was for one year, 

 that of a councilman, in 1873, near the close of which, up- 

 on the death of its President, Dr. Bowman B. Breed, he 

 was chosen his successor. 



Sociall}'" he was a very companionable man, and he was a 

 charter member of the Oxford Club, which has long in- 

 cluded so many of our prominent citizens. He was like- 

 wise very intelligent and much interested in good litera- 

 ture, being notably a lover of poetry. 



His many agreeable qualities, increasing with his years, 

 supplemented the aggressive activity of his early and mid- 

 dle life and mellowed his judgment ; — and they won him 

 a host of warm and appreciative friends to cherish his 

 memory. 



William Alvah Lamper. Mr. Lamper was born in 

 Gilmanton, N. H., in 1824, and died in I>ynn, Mass., Feb- 

 ruary 6, 1893. He came to Lynn in 1850 and associated 

 himself with his two brothers, Joseph B. and Stephen D., 

 and they carried on the teaming business between Lynn 

 and Boston. Later on, the sale of flour, hay and grain was 

 added to their business, and in 1869 also coal, wood, lime 

 and sand. In 1860 the express business was sold to Pratt 

 and Babb, but the other business, which was very ex- 

 tensive, was continued by the Lamper Bros., and at the 



