Brief Life History of George Washington
When George Washington Baker was born on 4 July 1882, in Center Township, Monroe, Ohio, United States, his father, Martin Baker, was 45 and his mother, Mary Ann Moose, was 40. He married Mary Arminda Bott on 19 September 1901, in Monroe, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Woodsfield, Monroe, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Woodsfield, Center Township, Monroe, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died in February 1965, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 82.
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- George W Baker, "United States Census, 1940"
- George Baker, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- George Baker, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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