Ahhhh!! Your talking a much earlier Baker, the one that got L.C. Smith started, while William H. Baker left and went to Ithaca to found a new company there using the water power from Fall Creek.
W.H. Baker was making his trigger-break hammer double and three-barrel guns in Lisle, New York, in 1876 and then Syracuse, New York, by 1877, as W.H. Baker & Co. By 1879 the magazine ads show L.C. Smith as being the dominant partner as L.C. Smith maker of Baker Pat'd Gun. Meanwhile William H. Baker leaves and forms another gun company with some other members of the Smith family and the Livermores down in Ithaca, New York, using water power from Fall Creek, and making a new Baker designed hammer gun with a conventional top-lever -- Ithaca Gun Co. Meanwhile William H. Baker's brother Dr. Ellis Baker has a company up in Syracuse called the Syracuse Forging and Gun Co. making an A.C. McFarland patented trigger-plate action hammer gun called the "New Baker" and by 1887 W.H. Baker is back in Syracuse as plant superintendant for his brother. In 1888 Syracuse Forging and Gun Co. burns and they decide to relocate to Batavia, New York. By this time W.H. Baker is ill with TB and Ellis brings in Frank A. Hollenbeck to be plant superintendant. The companies name is soon changed to Baker Gun and Forging Co. and the "New Baker" is changed from being underbolted to being bolted by a wedge thru a rib extension.
