He was born on April 17, 1870 in Lansing, Michigan. He went to Michigan Agricultural College and graduate from there in 1889. He then later studied law at The University of Michigan. In 1892, he went to go work for Chicago Record and was a reporter and editor for four years. This is how he found out how Chicago really was, with all the murders, lots of homeless people, and people not able to support them selves. “My attitude was that of the Frontier where I had grown up”. In 1894 he was assigned to go with Coxey’s Army on the road to demand relief of unemployment. “Dishonest way for freedom to redress wrongs”. He had finally got married in 1896 to Jessie Beal (Hyde), and they had four children together Alice Beal (Hyde), James Stannard, Roge Denio, and Rachel
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His articles attracted millions of people and they really enjoyed his articles. He was the first prominent journalist to focus on America’s racial divide. In 1912 Baker helped and supported Woodrow Wilson when he ran for president. The two of them became really good friends, and had a good bond between each other. Also in 1912 Woodrow Wilson sent Baker to Europe to study the war situation, and that way Wilson could prepare for war. Baker served as Wilson’s press secretary, and he went on to publish fifteen volumes about “Wilson and Internationalism”. He spent fourteen years on Wilson’s project, and had to go through five tons of presidential papers and becoming his intimate. In May of 1912 he wrote the Lawrence Textile Strike. “It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld man together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will that I have never felt before in any strike. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together but not aside, from skilled men. Some of whom belong to craft unions; comparatively few went back to the
His articles attracted millions of people and they really enjoyed his articles. He was the first prominent journalist to focus on America’s racial divide. In 1912 Baker helped and supported Woodrow Wilson when he ran for president. The two of them became really good friends, and had a good bond between each other. Also in 1912 Woodrow Wilson sent Baker to Europe to study the war situation, and that way Wilson could prepare for war. Baker served as Wilson’s press secretary, and he went on to publish fifteen volumes about “Wilson and Internationalism”. He spent fourteen years on Wilson’s project, and had to go through five tons of presidential papers and becoming his intimate. In May of 1912 he wrote the Lawrence Textile Strike. “It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld man together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will that I have never felt before in any strike. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together but not aside, from skilled men. Some of whom belong to craft unions; comparatively few went back to the