Brief Life History of Dodson Porter
When Dodson Porter Baker was born on 19 December 1853, in Grant, Kentucky, United States, his father, Dotson Throp Baker, was 30 and his mother, Mary Ann Ashcraft, was 30. He married Glendora "Dora" Vastine on 20 November 1879, in Pendleton, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 3, Grant, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 7 March 1929, in Bellefontaine, Logan, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Bellefontaine City Cemetery, Bellefontaine, Logan, Ohio, United States.
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- Dodson Baker, "United States Census, 1910"
- D. D. Baker, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
- Dotson P Baker, "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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