Leiter Lee BAKER [1890-1970]

Leiter L. Baker appears in the 1941 Jurors List as an Inspector in the Arnhold Trading Co., Ltd. He was interned and repatriated with other Americans in 1942. He returned to Hong Kong and reappears in the 1947 Jurors List as Leiter Lee Baker working for the same company. 

Obituary/Memorial:

Leiter L. Baker, 80, died 18 September at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Washington. He was buried in the National Cemetery, Culpepper, on 21 September.

Mr. Baker was born in Winchester, but spent the early years of his life in Wilmington and served during World War I with the U.S. Army's 59th Pioneer Regiment in France. In December 1941, while representing a British export-import firm in China, he was imprisoned in Hong Kong by the Japanese and remained in enemy custody until August 1942, when he returned to Wilmington.

During the last part of World War II he worked with the Foreign Economic Administration in Washington and at the close of the war returned to China and Hong Kong. He moved to Tacoma Park, upon retirement 13 years ago. His wife, the former Nadia Anisimoff of Russia, died in 1968. 

Source: The News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware dated 30 September 1970.