About Milo Samuel Baker
Lived 1868 – 1961 (aged 92). Milo Samuel Baker was an American botanist.
Milo Samuel Baker (July 19, 1868 – January 4, 1961) was an American botanist, specializing in plants of the northern coastal region of California, as well as the genus Viola.
In 1875 Milo Samuel Baker moved with his family to Tehama County, California. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in chemistry He taught from 1901 to 1906 at San Francisco's Lowell High School. After working as a farmer and rancher The herbarium that Baker established is now housed at Sonoma State University. He was president of the California Botanical Society in 1952.
He married Jennie Churchill on 14 July 1897.
Eponyms Arctostaphylos bakeri Eastw. Blennosperma bakeri Heiser Cryptantha milobakeri I.M.Johnst. Cupressus bakeri Jeps. Delphinium bakeri Ewan Viola bakeri Greene
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Who was Milo Samuel Baker?
American botanist (1868-1961)
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Milo Samuel Baker was born on 19 July 1868 in Strawberry Point.
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Milo Samuel Baker died on 4 January 1961 in Sonoma.
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Milo Samuel Baker was a botanist.
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