Rev. Purley A. Baker

From:  Taylor, William A. Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co, 1909.

Rev. Purley A. Baker

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In early manhood he engaged in teaching school and in reading law, but abandoned his intention of becoming 
connected with the legal profession to enter the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in the fall of 1883. 
For two years he served on the Jasper circuit in Pike county, Ohio, and for four years was minister of the 
Methodist church at Racine, Ohio, for five years at Gallipolis, Ohio, while for two years he was pastor of the 
Third Street Methodist Episcopal church in Columbus.

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