About: Darius Baker

Darius Baker (January 18, 1845 – March 19, 1926) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1913 to 1919. Born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, to Braddock Baker and Caroline (Crowell) Baker, he was educated in the public schools of Yarmouth, and served in the Union Army in the American Civil War, as a private in the 5th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, from 1862 to 1863, in North Carolina. He attended Providence Conference Seminary, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut, graduating in 1870. He gained admission to the bar in Connecticut in 1874, and entered the practice of law in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1875, where he became "one of the leading citizens of that community".