Background
Baker, Horace Burrington was born on January 25, 1889 in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. Son of Robert Folen and Sophia Jane (Burrington) Baker.
Baker, Horace Burrington was born on January 25, 1889 in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. Son of Robert Folen and Sophia Jane (Burrington) Baker.
Bachelor of Science, University of Michigan, 1910, Doctor of Philosophy, 1920.
To assistant professor biology Colorado College, 1913-1917. Instructor zoology University of Michigan, 1919. Instructor zoology University of Pennsylvania, 1920-1926, assistant professor, 1926-1928, associate professor, 1928-1939, professor, from 1939, acting department chairman, from 1955.
Research fellow Philadelphia Academy National Science, from 1925.
Research associate Bishop Museum, Honolulu, from 1937.
Served as Second lieutenant Field Artillery, United States Army, 1917-1919. Member American Society Naturalists, American Society Zoologists, American Ecological Society, American Limnological Society, American Malacological Union (president 1939), American Society Evolution, American Society Systematics, London Malacological Society, Deutsche Malacozoologische Gesellschaft Society, Sociedad Malacologica Cuba (honorary), Sigma Xi, Kappa Sigma.
Married Bernadine Barker, December 21, 1941. Children: Elizabeth C., Abigail B. Instructor.