Brief Life History of Lorenzo B
When Lorenzo B Baker was born in 1850, in Wisconsin, United States, his father, Palmer Baker, was 32 and his mother, Charlotte Ellis, was 26. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Alice Hampton. He lived in Rosendale, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States in 1860 and Clay, Dakota Territory, United States in 1880.
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- Lorenzo Baker in household of Palmer Baker, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lorenzo Baker in entry for Carl E. Baker, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
- Lorenzo Baker in household of Susan Hampton, "United States Census, 1880"
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1862
Historical Boundaries: 1862: Clay, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Clay, South Dakota, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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