A notably wealthy man due to his having improved the mechanical sewing machine , Baker assembled a parcel of land exceeding 800 acres ( 3.2 km ) and named it Ridge Hill Farm .
In the late 1860s William Emerson Baker moved to Needham .
A notably wealthy man due to his having improved the mechanical sewing machine , William Emerson Baker assembled a parcel of land exceeding 800 acres ( 3.2 km ) and named it Ridge Hill Farm .
In the late 1860s William Emerson Baker moved to Needham .