{"id":769,"date":"2017-03-03T03:36:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T08:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/?p=769"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:28:23","slug":"log-of-earl-w-baker-1201917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/2017\/03\/log-of-earl-w-baker-1201917\/","title":{"rendered":"Log of Earl W Baker 1\/20\/1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is the first in a series of transcriptions of the Log book of Earl W Baker of Poughkeepsie from 1917. I don’t know much about him other than his ancestors dumped a huge box of genealogy records and I was left to pick it up. This log book full of\u00a0the thoughts of a man from Dutchess County (albeit not so Northern) from 100 years ago seemed interesting. I should have remembered that I was working on this\u00a0and posted them on the corresponding dates, but hey. I’m doing it now (thanks, Emily). Like many efforts to keep a journal (*cough*or a local history blog*cough*), Mr. Baker does well out the gate but then by March is not posting but once in a while. Here’s the first entry and the quote that he transcribed\u00a0on a page before that entry. My notes are in parenthesis.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is no wealth but life.<\/span><\/h6>\n
Life, including all its powers – of love, of joy – of admiration.<\/span><\/h6>\n
-Ruskin<\/span><\/h6>\n

(Published in 1860, John Ruskin \u201cUnto This Last\u201d an essay\/book about economy that changed Gandhi’s life when he read it)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Log of Earl W Baker 1917<\/span><\/h3>\n

Jan 20, 1917<\/span><\/p>\n

This Diary shall be the record of my daily struggle for Self-Mastery. In it, I shall set forth Plans, Ideas, and Ideals, the lessons of Experience, gleanings from print, impressions of the passing Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

To the End that I may have, in daily contact with my Life, an incentive, inspiration and goal: a reminder of past failures with the causes thereof. And a Viewpoint toward Life which shall be in Harmony with my real Ambitions and Purposes, and not in compliance with minor and incidental gratification. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Humanum est errare.\u2019 (To err is human) I will analyze my failures; sound my blunders. And where I meet with Success, I will credit myself only with that part due to foresight and not with the success due to whim of chance or outside aid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now for my Ideals. Simply Honor & Personality. To Live each day as if it were Doomsday, wisely, thoughtfully, unselfishly – To Live each day to the very full – at the very Top of Perfection – my self at its Utmost Best – Alert – Responsive – Volatile. – To embody Energy, Courage, Enthusiasm and Hopefullness (sic)<\/span><\/p>\n

– To be Gracious, Interested, Tactful, and Kind.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this Year – This Slogan To Give my Best to Each Passing Moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Deo Juvante\u2019 (with God\u2019s help)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"1917<\/a>

1917 Baker Log, page 1<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is the first in a series of transcriptions of the Log book of Earl W Baker of Poughkeepsie …<\/p>\n

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