Brief Life History of Arthur Clarence
When Arthur Clarence Baker was born on 6 November 1892, in Salisbury, Addison, Vermont, United States, his father, Edward Tucker Baker, was 46 and his mother, Marguerite "Maggie" Catman, was 25. He married Gertrude Margaret Catman on 6 June 1917, in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 24 January 1942, at the age of 49, and was buried in Springfield, Tuolumne, California, United States.
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- Arthur Baker in household of Edward Baker 2nd, "United States Census, 1910"
- Arthur Clarence Baker, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Arthur C Baker, "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949"
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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.
1905 · Treaty of Portsmouth Signed
The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on September 5, 1905 and officially brought a conclusion to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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