Brief Life History of James O.
When James O. Baker was born on 26 March 1874, in Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States, his father, Joseph Baker, was 50 and his mother, Charlotte Byers, was 46. He married Ida Bell Duckworth on 9 September 1897, in Gentry, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Marshall, Saline, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Athens Township, Gentry, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 29 October 1937, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in St Joseph Memorial Park, Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (5)
- James O Baker, "United States Census, 1900"
- James O Baker, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- James O Baker, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
Spouse and Children
1874–1937 Male
1876–1907 Female
Children (1)
1898–1966 Male
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1823–1884 Male
1828–1908 Female
Siblings (11)
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller . Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.
Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘baker’, for example Dutch Bakker , German Becker and Beck , French Boulanger and Bélanger (see Belanger ), Czech Pekař, Slovak Pekár, and Croatian Pekar .
History: Baker was established as an early immigrant surname in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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