Brief Life History of Elisha
When Elisha Baker was born on 28 March 1839, in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Elisha Baker, was 34 and his mother, Diadama Briggs, was 28. He married Isabella V. Thistle on 28 March 1861, in Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1870. He died on 29 November 1922, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 83.
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- Elisha Baker, "United States Census, 1880"
- Elisha Baker, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Elisha Baker, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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