U.S. BANKER DIES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13577, 1 June 1937, Page 5

U.S. BANKER DIES

VA 1X SEA OPERATION. United Press Assn. —i>\ Klectric Telegraph—Copv right. HONOLULU. AI a y 31. Air G eorgv? Baker, the American banker, died early tin’s morning. His death was due to complica* tii ns follow ng an operation. 11 is estate is value-.j at between 200 and •vQ million dollars. Air George Fisher Baker was born in New \ ork in 1878 and took his B.A. at Harvard in 1899. He mar--a ct Aliss Edith U. Kone in 1911 and had four children. He was chair- | man oi the board of the First NaT] .°nal Bank of New A'ork. and a> director or the American Telephone ami Telegraph Co., the United States St< *] Corporation, General ?vle.-:ors. the Pullman Co., and other large corporations, if*- was a trustee of the- New York Public Lib"sry, the American Aluseum of Nat-uj-al Hi-tvrv. and the Society of the New York Hospital. He was" head oi the. American Red Cross AXission to ,t;| iy. w»th the rank of lieutenantolonel. in 191 , . Recent 1 v it was reported that Air Rakers yacht, the \ iking, hailed the Niagara and oh- 1 tained medical a d for Air Baker, j ;;i •< • suffering from peritonitis. Alter a satisfactory operation the pat ent took a turn for the worse.