Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Baker was born on 30 August 1872, in Van Buren, Missouri, United States, his father, Hezekiah C Baker, was 41 and his mother, Martha Matilda Haskins, was 34. He married Emma Mary Sanders on 27 September 1905, in Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Supervisorial District 2, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940 and Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1942. He died on 8 August 1947, in Prairie Grove, Washington, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Flint Creek Cemetery, Gentry, Benton, Arkansas, United States.
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- B F Baker, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Benjamin F. Baker, "Kansas, Marriages, 1811-1911"
- B F Baker, "Arizona, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
1894
Historical Boundaries - 1894: Benton, Arkansas, United States
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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