HISTORY OF RANDOLPH AND MACON COUNTIES MISSOURI
St. Louis National Historical Co., 1884

Randolph County, Clifton Township, page 616

Dr. Peter S. Baker
Physician, Surgeon and Druggist, Clifton Hill

Dr. Baker is one of the fathers of Clifton Hill, being one of its first
residents, business men and physicians. He located here May 13, 1868, when
there were but two houses in the place, and established a drug store. The
following year he began the practice of medicine, and he has continued to
reside at this place and practice his profession, as well as carry on his
drug store business up to the present time. He has an excellent drug store,
which commands a large trade, and he is well known to the people of the
surrounding country as a man of unimpeachable integrity and of a most
accommodating disposition. The Dr. also has a good practice in his profession,
and he never refuses to go when called to the bedside of the suffering.

Dr. Baker is a native Missourian, born in Johnson County, February 10th, 1846.
His father, William C. Baker, and mother, whose maiden name was Nancy
McGinnis, were both from Tennessee, and came to Missouri after their marriage
in 1832, locating in Johnson County, where they lived until their death.

There were five others in their family besides the Doctor,
namely: Elizabeth J., Catherine A., James H. P., Mary E., and William T.
Peter Smith Baker, the youngest in the family and the subject of this sketch,
was reared on his father's farm in Johnson County, and in young manhood
learned the drug business and studied medicine, in both of which he afterward
engaged. As stated above, he came to Clifton Hill in 1868, and has since made
this his home. In 1878 Dr. Baker was married to Miss Julia J. Maxwell,
formerly of Buchanan County, having been born at St. Joseph. She was a
daughter of Henry and Martha (Cummings) Maxwell, her father a native of
Pennsylvania, but her mother of Louisville, Ky.  She has five brothers and a
sister: James H., William D., Fort, Charles, John and Minnie A. Dr. and Mrs.
Baker have one child, Jennie E., born January 8, 1879. Claude Willie, their
second child, born November 22, 1880, died June 1, 1883. The Doctor and his
wife are both church members, he of the Missionary Baptist, and she of the
M. E. Church South. He is also a member of the Masonic Order and of the
United Workmen. Dr. Baker is at present the judicial magistrate of Clifton
Township, and is also postmaster at Clifton Hill.