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HENRY E. BAKER. Henry E. Baker is one of the most useful men in, Washington. His life stands out in strong contrast to that of so many of our educated colored men who have come to Washington, obtained positions in the government service and shriveled up so far as public usefulness is concerned. He is an active member of the Berean Baptist Church, being its treasurer, an office he has held for several years. For ten years he has been secretary, the executive ofilee, of the Industrial Building and Savings Company, and a director of the Capital Savings Bank. His' most notable characteristic is his public spirit, having been connected with almost every well directed movement in this city for the last fifteen years, looking to the betterment of the condition of his race, especially in the matter of opening up business opportunities for them. The estimation in which he Is held by those who know him best is attested by the fact that he is almost invariably called to the position of treasurer in every organization at which he is a member. Born just before the War in Columbus, Miss., he attended the public school of his home and also the Columbus Union Academy. He passed the entrance examination at Annapolis, and was admitted into the Naval Academy as cadet midshipman In 1875, where he remained nearly two years. In 1877, he was appointed "copyist" in the United States Patent Oftice, where he is at present employed, and where he was promoted, through the several intervening grades, to the position of Second Assistant Examiner at $1,600 per annum. He attended the Ben-Hyde Benton School of Technology in this city from 1877 to 1879; entered the law department of Howard University in 1879, graduating In 1881, at the head of his class, and from the post-graduate course in 1883. He was married in May, 1893, at Lexington, Ky., to Miss Violetta K. Clark, of Detroit, Mich., who graces a cozy home at 2348 Sixth Street, N. W.