Joshua T. Baker (1847-1932) was born and died in Marshfield, Massachusetts. In 1874 he married Ella W. Baker (b. Worster) in Marshfield, and they settled there. Baker followed his father into the shoe manufacturing business. By 1900 he had become a salesman and candy dealer, but by 1910 he returned to the shoe business and finished his career as the owner of a shoe repair shop. In 1886 Baker wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to request the address of a man she described healing in the April 1886 edition of The Christian Science Journal. A note on the letter identifies the healed man as John Scott of Stoughton, Massachusetts.

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