Brief Life History of George Crawford
When George Crawford Baer was born on 4 March 1874, in Kirby, Whiteley Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Baker Martin Baer, was 30 and his mother, Susannah Catharine Lemley, was 27. He married Edith Alene Maxon on 21 December 1912, in Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Perry Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Morris Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. He died on 25 April 1936, in Greene, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Mount Morris, Perry Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- George C Baer, "United States Census, 1930"
- George C Baer, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- George Crawford Baer, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
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.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
German (also Bär): from Middle High German ber ‘bear’, a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way, a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a performing bear, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a bear. In some cases it may derive from a personal name containing this element. Compare Bar 2.
Jewish (Ashkenazic; also Bär): from the Yiddish male personal name Ber, from Yiddish ber ‘bear’. Compare Bar 1.
Germanized form (also Bär) of Sorbian Běr: see Bar 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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