Career
Wilder DuPuy Baker was born on July 22, 1890 in Topeka, Kansas as a son of local newspaperman and grandson of Topeka editor Floyd Perry Baker. He attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and graduated in 1914 with the rank of Ensign. Baker subsequently attended the Submarine School in New London, Connecticut, where he was trained in submarine warfare.
With the outbreak of World War I, Baker served with submarine units in the European waters.
After the war, Baker was assigned to the submarine United States Ship T-2.
