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South Dartmouth (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): article 5
Death of the discoverer of "Baker's Island." --Capt. Michael Baker died at South Dartmouth, Mass., on the 31st ult. The commercial and agricultural world will long hold his name in grateful remembrance as the discoverer of guano on "New Nantucket," now called "Baker's Island." The discovery was on this wise: On board of the ship commanded by Captain Baker, in the year 1841, there was an orphan, named Warren Wilbur. This young man was fatally injured by falling from the look-out aloft, and his dying request of Capt. Baker, who watched over and cared for him as if he had been his own son, was to bury him on land and not in the ocean. Capt. Baker promised to do so if possible, and being in the vicinity of Baker's Island, interred him there. In digging the grave he discovered what he then thought to be a most remarkable kind of soil, the dust of which so enveloped and choked the men that they were compelled to abandon the place first attempted, and choose another nearer the s
Baker Island (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 5
Death of the discoverer of "Baker's Island." --Capt. Michael Baker died at South Dartmouth, Mass., on the 31st ult. The commercial and agricultural world will long hold his name in grateful remembrance as the discoverer of guano on "New Nantucket," now called "Baker's Island." The discovery was on this wise: On board ofBaker's Island." The discovery was on this wise: On board of the ship commanded by Captain Baker, in the year 1841, there was an orphan, named Warren Wilbur. This young man was fatally injured by falling from the look-out aloft, and his dying request of Capt. Baker, who watched over and cared for him as if he had been his own son, was to bury him on land and not in the ocean. Capt. Baker promised to do so if possible, and being in the vicinity of Baker's Island, interred him there. In digging the grave he discovered what he then thought to be a most remarkable kind of soil, the dust of which so enveloped and choked the men that they were compelled to abandon the place first attempted, and choose another nearer t
Michael Baker (search for this): article 5
Death of the discoverer of "Baker's Island." --Capt. Michael Baker died at South Dartmouth, Mass., on the 31st ult. The commercial and agricultural world will long hold his name in grateful remembrance as the discoverer of guano on "New Nantucket," now called "Baker's Island." The discovery was on this wise: On board of the ship commanded by Captain Baker, in the year 1841, there was an orphan, named Warren Wilbur. This young man was fatally injured by falling from the look-out aloft, and his dying request of Capt. Baker, who watched over and cared for him as if he had been his own son, was to bury him on land and not in the ocean. Capt. Baker promised to do so if possible, and being in the vicinity of Baker's Island, interrCapt. Baker promised to do so if possible, and being in the vicinity of Baker's Island, interred him there. In digging the grave he discovered what he then thought to be a most remarkable kind of soil, the dust of which so enveloped and choked the men that they were compelled to abandon the place first attempted, and choose another nearer t
Warren Wilbur (search for this): article 5
Death of the discoverer of "Baker's Island." --Capt. Michael Baker died at South Dartmouth, Mass., on the 31st ult. The commercial and agricultural world will long hold his name in grateful remembrance as the discoverer of guano on "New Nantucket," now called "Baker's Island." The discovery was on this wise: On board of the ship commanded by Captain Baker, in the year 1841, there was an orphan, named Warren Wilbur. This young man was fatally injured by falling from the look-out aloft, and his dying request of Capt. Baker, who watched over and cared for him as if he had been his own son, was to bury him on land and not in the ocean. Capt. Baker promised to do so if possible, and being in the vicinity of Baker's Island, interred him there. In digging the grave he discovered what he then thought to be a most remarkable kind of soil, the dust of which so enveloped and choked the men that they were compelled to abandon the place first attempted, and choose another nearer the
31st (search for this): article 5
Death of the discoverer of "Baker's Island." --Capt. Michael Baker died at South Dartmouth, Mass., on the 31st ult. The commercial and agricultural world will long hold his name in grateful remembrance as the discoverer of guano on "New Nantucket," now called "Baker's Island." The discovery was on this wise: On board of the ship commanded by Captain Baker, in the year 1841, there was an orphan, named Warren Wilbur. This young man was fatally injured by falling from the look-out aloft, and his dying request of Capt. Baker, who watched over and cared for him as if he had been his own son, was to bury him on land and not in the ocean. Capt. Baker promised to do so if possible, and being in the vicinity of Baker's Island, interred him there. In digging the grave he discovered what he then thought to be a most remarkable kind of soil, the dust of which so enveloped and choked the men that they were compelled to abandon the place first attempted, and choose another nearer the
1841 AD (search for this): article 5
Death of the discoverer of "Baker's Island." --Capt. Michael Baker died at South Dartmouth, Mass., on the 31st ult. The commercial and agricultural world will long hold his name in grateful remembrance as the discoverer of guano on "New Nantucket," now called "Baker's Island." The discovery was on this wise: On board of the ship commanded by Captain Baker, in the year 1841, there was an orphan, named Warren Wilbur. This young man was fatally injured by falling from the look-out aloft, and his dying request of Capt. Baker, who watched over and cared for him as if he had been his own son, was to bury him on land and not in the ocean. Capt. Baker promised to do so if possible, and being in the vicinity of Baker's Island, interred him there. In digging the grave he discovered what he then thought to be a most remarkable kind of soil, the dust of which so enveloped and choked the men that they were compelled to abandon the place first attempted, and choose another nearer the s