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| | Handbook of Texas Online: BAKER, CHARLES LAURENCE |
 | | Charles Laurence Baker, structural geologist, was born in Coe Township, Rock Island County, Illinois, on October 10, 1887, the son of Rudolphus James Rodney and Alice (Drennan) Baker. |
 | | Baker is remembered for his forays of two to three weeks alone and on foot into the desert, for his extensive explorations in Mexico, and for his search for hydrocarbons in California. |
 | | Baker retired in 1953 to the farm in Cordova, Illinois, where he had grown up, and died on April 7, 1979, at East Lansing, Michigan. |
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