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James Chamberlain Baker




James was born in Sheldon, Illinois . Of New England Ancestry on both sides, he was a son of the Rev. Benjamin Webb Baker, a Civil War Chaplain .

Prior to his election to the Episcopacy , Bishop Baker united with the Illinois Annual Conference of the M.E. Church in 1900. He served as an Educator , a Pastor , and the organizer and head of the first Wesley Foundation in the United States , at the University Of Illinois .

Bishop Baker served the California Episcopal Area, which at the time included the following Annual Conferences: California, Southern California-Arizona, California Oriental Provisional, Hawaii Mission, Pacific Japanese Provisional, and Latin American Provisional.


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  • Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.



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