Brief Life History of William Rice
When William Rice Baker was born on 5 March 1839, in Randolph, Missouri, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson Baker, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth McCully, was 24. He married Margaret Ann Harlan on 7 September 1860, in Randolph, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. He lived in Sheridan Township, Crawford, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Bentley, Atoka, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. He died on 29 April 1919, in Randolph, Missouri, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Clifton Hill, Randolph, Missouri, United States.
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- William Baker, "United States Census, 1900"
- Mr William R Baker, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- William Rice Baker, "Find A Grave Index", 56831444
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
1861
Kansas is the 34th state
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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