Brief Life History of Cornelia Ann
When Cornelia Ann Baker was born on 24 October 1892, in Cheapside, Gonzales, Texas, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Baker, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Wright Peterson, was 32. She married Edward Rankin Wharton on 7 July 1912, in Kerr, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Kerrville, Kerr, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Justice Precinct 1, Kerr, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 19 July 1944, in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Glen Rest Cemetery, Kerrville, Kerr, Texas, United States.
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- Cornelia Wharton in household of E R Wharton, "United States Census, 1920"
- Cornelia Annie Baker, "Texas, Gonzales County, Birth Records, 1878-1945"
- Cornelia A Baker, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
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1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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.
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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