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From: "Victoria Hospodar Valentine" <>
Subject: [PA-SW-OBITS] BAKER, MCCONNELL Oct. 8, 1920 McDonald PA Record
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 07:52:49 -0400


BAKER, MCCONNELL

George Plummer BAKER, well-known member of the Washington county bar and a
former member of the State legislature from this county, died suddenly at
the City hospital, Washington, Pa., Sunday afternoon, October 3, 1920, at
1:30 o'clock. News of Mr. BAKER's death came as a shock to his friends, it
not having been generally known he was ill. He had been suffering from
mastoid trouble and became unconscious Friday afternoon. He was taken to
the hospital Saturday and was operated on late in the afternoon. While he
recovered from the anaesthetic (sic), he did not recover consciousness,
meningitis which developed causing his death.
Mr. BAKER was born in West Pike Run township but spent most of his life in
Washington. At the primaries last spring he opposed Congressman Henry W.
TEMPLE for the Republican congressional nomination. He was borough
solicitor and had served several terms as a member of the school board.
>From 1914 to 1918 he was a member of the State legislature. Mr. BAKER was a
graduate of California normal school. He leaves his widow, two daughters
and four brothers.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon.

The death of Mrs. Katherine MCCONNELL occurred at the house of her daughter
at Coraopolis last Saturday. She was buried at Bethlehem on Monday.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Ida S(COTT?), she leaves five sons, Henry,
Robert, John, William, and Charles
*Compilers note: From the Clinton column of the newspaper.

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