have the Bank of the Manhattan Company shareholders owned the stock of the International Acceptance Bank. In 1932, he was chosen as chairman of the board and served in that role until March 31, 1955, when the Bank of the Manhattan Company merged with the Chase National Bank to form the second-largest commercial banking institution in the country. Baker became president and chairman of the executive committee of the merged institution which started out with deposits in excess of $6.8 billion. He retired on December 31, 1957, but continued as a director of Chase Manhattan until August 11, 1965. In 1953, he was elected president of the St. Luke's Hospital board of trustees. Personal life In 1915, Baker was married to Marianne Lathrop Foote (1894–1992), a daughter of Robert Dumont Foote and Marie Gilmour (née Hopkins) Foote. In 1933, they leased a large duplex apartment at 770 Park Avenue, the Rosario Candela designed luxury apartment building. Together, they were the parents of: John Stewart Baker Jr. (d. 2003), who became a senior vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, president of the Alpha Portland Cement Co. in 1964 and president of the Garden State Bank. Barbara Dumont Baker (1916–2019), who married Richard Englis Baiter, an executive with Lever Brothers, in 1936. After his death, she married Frederic Welsh and Gordon MacPherson. Priscilla F. Baker (1921–2010), who married Serge Jerome Hill, a son of Lucian Hill, in 1942. Stephen Baker (1924–1950), who worked with the Bank of New York and the Fifth Avenue Bank; was engaged to Mary Watts Belcher at the time of his death. After a short illness, Baker died at the Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey on September 5, 1966. References Notes Sources External links 1893 births 1966 deaths Princeton University alumni American bankers People from Lawrence, Nassau County, New York