Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901,
reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.

E. R. BAKER.  It is seldom that a man as young as Riley Baker is called
upon to fill as responsible a position as the one being so well filled by
the subject of this sketch.  E. R. Baker is yet more than half a year short
of his nineteenth anniversary, and yet he is the assistant cashier and
bookkeeper in a financial institution with a half a million of business
on its books.  Young Baker is a Grant county boy, having been born on his
father's farm, November 24, 1882.  His father is our worthy fellow
townsman, J. M. Baker, and his mother is N. J. Baker.
     When he came to town with his father's family six or seven years ago
he was only a lad.  However, he matriculated in the Williamstown Graded
Free School, then under the able management of Professor J. H. Dickey, and
in May of 1898 he graduated with honors and was presented with the Graded
Free School diploma.  Later he attended the business department of the
Commercial College of Kentucky at Lexington, and graduated from that
institution in March of 1900.
     Dickey was elected cashier of the Grant County Deposit Bank in 1900,
and in looking around him for an able assistant, he selected one of the
boys whose life he had helped to shape and whose habits he knew were
correct, and Riley was given the position he now holds.  He has made a
most excellent official and is popular with the bank and its customers.
He is one of our own Grant county boys, the product of our own Graded
Free School, and his success so early in life brings joy to all who love
the town, its people and the "old" Graded Free School.

Baker Dickey
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Fayette-KY

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