Harry A. Baker

Brief Life History of Harry A.

When Harry A. Baker was born about 1864, in Iowa, United States, his father, Hezekiah C Baker, was 35 and his mother, Martha Matilda Haskins, was 28. He married Lula Hall on 6 December 1888, in Oswego, Labette, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Austin, Van Buren, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Rochester, Andrew, Missouri, United States in 1880.

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Harry A. Baker
1864–
Lula Hall
1869–1940
Marriage: 6 December 1888
Claude Claypool Baker
1889–1983

Sources (5)

  • Harvey Baker in household of Hesakiah Baker, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Harry A Baker, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
  • Harry A Baker in entry for Claude Claypool Baker, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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World Events (8)

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1867 · The Burtis Opera House

The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.

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

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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