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==Marriage and family== Baker eloped from Missouri, where he began working as a university professor in 1955, to Chicago, Illinois, to marry Eugenia ("Jeanne") Marie Jones.<ref name="Legacy">{{cite book | author1=[[Monika Herzig]]|author2=Nathan Davis| title=David Baker: A Legacy in Music |location=Bloomington |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2011 |pages=20β21 |edition=Print| isbn =9780253356574}}</ref> Baker and his first wife, Jeanne, were the parents of a daughter, April. The marriage ended in divorce.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news| author=[[Margalit Fox]]| title =David Baker, Who Helped Bring Jazz Studies into the Academy, Dies at 84 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date = March 29, 2016| url =https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/arts/music/david-baker-who-helped-bring-jazz-studies-into-the-academy-dies-at-84.html | access-date =June 29, 2018}}</ref> Baker had a granddaughter, Kirsten, and a great-grandson, Dylan.<ref name=Buckley>{{cite news|author=Madeline Buckley |title=David Baker, jazz teacher and musician, dies at 84|newspaper=[[The Indianapolis Star]]|date=March 26, 2016 |url=http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/03/26/david-baker/82293442/ | access-date =June 29, 2018}}</ref> Baker's second marriage was to [[flautist]] Lida Belt.<ref name=NYT/>
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