Oliver Edwin Baker

Oliver Edwin Baker 1883-1949, American economic geographer, grad. Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio. He studied forestry at Yale and agriculture and economics at the Univ. of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1921). He served (1912-42) with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, largely in research on land utilization. Besides many articles and reports, he wrote with V. C. Finch Geography of the World's Agriculture (1917), and he edited the Atlas of American Agriculture.

Baker, Benjamin A. (1818–90), actor, playwright, and manager. Two years after making his stage debut in 1837 in Natchez, Mississippi, where he played small roles opposite Junius Brutus Booth, he came back to his native New York to join William Mitchell at the Olympic as actor and prompter. On occasion he helped Mitchell write burlesques. His most famous play, which was written for his own benefit performance, was A Glance at New York in 1848. The play was a huge success, establishing a vogue for such local dramas, and Baker quickly churned out sequels, such as New York As It Is (1848), Three Years After (1849), and Mose in China (1850). After several years of running theatres in Washington and San Francisco, he returned to New York in 1856 to manage Edwin Booth's company. Although he continued to write burlesques and some musical comedy librettos, he spent most of his remaining years as a theatre manager. He was also active as an officer of the Actors' Fund.

Eytinge, Rose (1835–1911), American actress, who made her début as Melanie in Boucicault's The Old Guard (1852). A beautiful Jewess, she was greatly admired in both high comedy (as Lady Gay Spanker in Boucicault's London Assurance and as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing) and tragedy (as Ophelia in Hamlet, Desdemona in Othello, and especially Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra). She appeared with Edwin Booth in Bulwer-Lytton's Richelieu (1864) and other plays. Perhaps her most popular role was that of Nancy in Dickens's Oliver Twist (1867) with E. A. Davenport as Bill Sikes and the younger James Wallack as Fagin. Her later career suffered from her increased proneness to temperamental outbursts both on and off stage.