Brief Life History of Palmer
When Palmer Baker was born on 24 April 1818, in Le Ray, Jefferson, New York, United States, his father, Freeborn Baker, was 45 and his mother, Jane Christian, was 38. He married Charlotte Ellis in 1842, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Springvale, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States in 1850 and Wisconsin, United States in 1870. He died on 29 April 1891, in Rosendale, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Rosendale, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Palmer Baker, "Wisconsin State Census, 1855"
- Palmer Baker, "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930"
- Palmer Baker, "South Dakota, Grave Registration Records, 1940-1941"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1836
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1849: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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