Second Presbyterian’s story is a bit more organ-filled. Chartered in 1837, the congregation began life in a building that once housed First Congregational, a short-lived offshoot of downtown’s Old Stone Church. Second Church’s first organ was sold in 1851 to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, making way for another organ in a new church built in 1852. For $2,400 John Baker of Boston provided this instrument, containing 927 pipes and a detached console. The description included, “A painted case with gilt front pipes with double Venetian swell box and shutters; two rows of keys; compass CC to G in altissimo; compass of pedals CCC to D two octaves and two notes….” (Second Church is listed with some sources for a Henry Erben organ in 1850; however, it would appear that Baker, a former Erben employee, built the organ instead, and the sources are confused.)
-- 2009 OHS Atlas

Updated through online information from william rowland. -- This Organbuilder needs to be verified as one and the same as the Baker who built the Abbeville, South Carolina Trinity Episcopal Church Organ, which is currently undergoing restoration by Allan Ontko Organs of Charleston, South Carolina. Until I found this listing of instruments; only one instrument was known to have been built by him and that was the Abbeville instrument. Baker established himself in Charleston, South Carolina as an Organ Builder but other than the ones listed, if genuine, none have survived. We must remember that he seems to have disappeared after 1860. Perhaps he was killed during the Civil War as Charleston was a prime target in the War of Aggression.

Probably erected by John Baker. BOC quotes from Dwight's Journal of Music 24 Jul 1852. 26' high, 18 1/2' wide, 16' deep. Extended action (detached console). [Note that Henry Erben's name is not listed in the Dwight article. The church is on the Erben list for an 1850 instrument. As Baker worked for Erben the organ was probably an Erben.]