| Biography* | | The following was taken from the Cherokee County History by Mrs. F. R. Stewart, p. 442-443: Senator Enoch Marvin Baker, of Fort Payne, was born March 2, 1879, in DeKalb County. He was the son of Andrew Tyler and Eliza Jane (McSpadden) Baker. Andrew T. Baker was a native of TN, who served as a private from Cherokee Co. in the Confederate States Army and located at Ft. Payne at the close of the war. Senator Baker was a grandson of Rufus Morgan and Annie Elizabeth (Culpepper) Baker, of TN, who located in Cherokee Co, the former serving in the Confederate States Army, and of Samuel R. and Mary (Reese) McSpadden of DeKalb Co. Senator Baker was educated in the public and private schools of DeKalb Co, and attended North Alabama College at Ft. Payne for one term and the prep schools at Sulphur Springs and Springville. He taught school in DeKalb, Cherokee, and Etowah counties, at the same time studying law at night. He was admitted to the bar August 17, 1912, and began practice in Ft. Payne. He served as representative from DeKalb Co. in 1919, and was judge of the County Court 1927-1931. During the World War he served on the Legal Advisory Board, was director of the Red Cross, County Food Administrator, 3-Minute Speaker, and confidential advisor the the Secretary of War. He is a Democrat, a Methodist, and a Mason. He married Mary Alma Allison, June 19,1918, at Rising Fawn, GA. She was the daughter of William Lee and Mary Ellen (Norwood) Allison, of that place. Their children are Martha, Elnora, and William Tyler. |