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Oliver Edwin Baker was born on September 10, 1883 in Tiffin, Ohio, the only child of Edwin Baker and Martha Ranney (Thomas) Baker. His father, a descendant of Rev. Nicholas Baker, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1635, was a seafaring man from Cape Cod who moved to Tiffin and became a carpet merchant; his mother, also born in New England, had been a teacher.
Mother looked after much of her son's early education, for he was a frail child and was often forced to miss school. Although asthma and other health problems plagued him, Baker obtained a broad education. He attended Tiffin's Heidelberg University, a small liberal-arts college affiliated with the United Church of Christ, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1903, emphasizing mathematics, history, and botany, and a master's degree the following year, in sociology and philosophy. He then earned a second master's degree at Columbia University in 1905, this time in political science, and studied forestry at Yale in 1907-1908. Next, he became a graduate student in agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, specializing in soils and doing research on the effects of climate on Wisconsin agriculture.
In 1921 earned a Ph. D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1937, he received an honorary Ph. D. from Göttingen University.
Long interested in geography, he developed maps of climates and soils and studied Henry C. Taylor's mapping of agricultural production. When William J. Spillman of the Office of Farm Management, U. S. Department of Agriculture, became interested in exploring a geographical approach to farm problems, Taylor recommended Baker for the job. Joining the department in 1912, Baker embarked upon several significant, long-term projects delineating agricultural regions and mapping the physical basis of agriculture, agricultural production, and agricultural trade. As his geographical work moved forward, Baker enlarged the economic dimension. Encouraged by Taylor, a pioneer in agricultural economics, he returned to the University of Wisconsin and earned a Ph. D. in economics in 1921 with a dissertation on land utilization. When the USDA's Bureau of Agricultural Economics was established in 1922, with Taylor as chief, Baker became a member.
During the next decade, he published extensively on land utilization, working closely with L. C. Gray and contributing to the changes taking place in thinking about land policy. Before the end of the 1920's, Baker began to shift his attention to population problems, influenced by the farm crisis, the shift of population to the cities, and the sharp drop in the birthrate. That drop had, he believed, brought to an end an era of extraordinary increase in population and of agricultural expansion. Now, he suggested, instead of the food scarcities that had been feared, food supply exceeded demand in the United States and seemed likely to continue to do so, for soon the population would begin to decline. His conclusions influenced the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations, contributing to their attempts at land-use planning and to their efforts to cut back on agricultural production and to develop new communities. Baker hoped to reverse undesirable trends. Worried that society would soon not have enough leaders, he urged well-educated people to have more children. Very critical of city life, he called for improvements in rural living that would make it more attractive to able people, and he advocated a "rurban" civilization that would combine industrial and commercial employment with life in villages and suburbs and part-time farming. Such developments would, he was convinced, strengthen family ties, improve land-use practices, and increase the birthrate.
Baker left the Department of Agriculture in 1942 to become professor and department chairman at the University of Maryland. He created and developed the department of geography, building it into an important part of the profession. He remained active in research, assisting in the development of an atlas of the world's natural resources and another on China. And, although the "baby boom" had begun, his concern with population trends persisted. As the cold war began, he warned that within a century the United States would be dominated by Russia because of America's declining birthrate and luxury living. Baker resigned as department chairman in July 1949, hoping to push his research forward, but he died suddenly, of a coronary occlusion, at his home in College Park, on December 2, 1949. His funeral service was held in his home.
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Although he had been raised as a Methodist and regarded the church as a valuable institution, he had not been a member.
A research leader as well as a research worker, Baker had a personality that suited him for both roles. Although he was not physically strong, he worked hard and creatively. He accepted suggestions from those who worked with him, was interested in their work, and inspired, encouraged, and helped them.
He married Alice Hargrave Crew, the daughter of a distinguished physicist, on Dec. 30, 1925. They had three daughters, Helen Thomas, Sabra Zilpha, and Mildred Coale, and one son, Edwin Crew. The family lived on a large suburban plot that enabled them to raise chickens and cows and cultivate a garden.
