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Clarence Wilbur (Carl) Baker (1888-1967) optometrist, editor and gaoled communist
Birth: 8 July 1888 in Hardin County, Ohio, USA. Son of Joseph Baker, farmer, and Iona, née Smith; Marriage: 28 July 1915 in Registry Office Melbourne to Edith Eveline Lucas. They had one son. Divorced: 4 July 1925 in Melbourne. Death: 12 March 1967 in Concord Repatriation Hospital, Sydney. No Religion.
Resources
Malcolm Henry Ellis, The red road: the story of the capture of the Lang party by Communists, instructed from Moscow (Sydney [1932]); Davidson PhD; Stuart Macintyre, The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality (Sydney, 1998); Tribune, 10 Feb 1971; B. Walker, Solidarity Forever (Melb, 1972) https://www.solidarityforeverbook.com/cgi-bin/showchapter.pl?c=
'Baker, Clarence Wilbur (Carl) (1888–1967)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://labouraustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/baker-clarence-wilbur-carl-32044/text39604, accessed 1 September 2024.
8 July,
1888
Hardin,
Ohio,
United States of America
12 March,
1967
(aged 78)
Concord, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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