Edgar Baker

Brief Life History of Edgar

When Edgar Baker was born on 19 November 1870, in Gravity, Taylor, Iowa, United States, his father, Richard Baker, was 25 and his mother, Emily Cain, was 24. He married Effie Bridges on 1 January 1897, in Canadian, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Hanford, Kings, California, United States in 1930 and Hanford Judicial Township, Kings, California, United States in 1940. He died on 17 October 1945, in Kings, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Hanford, Kings, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edgar Baker
1870–1945
Effie Bridges
1879–1951
Marriage: 1 January 1897
Floyd Cecil Baker
1897–1971
Zelma Grace Baker
1899–1981
Virgil Forrest Baker
1907–2005
Gordon Baker
1918–
Gerald Baker
1920–
Billy Baker
1921–

Sources (21)

  • Edgar Baker, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Edgar Baker, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
  • Edgar Baker, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1872 · The First National Park

Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

1872 · The Modoc War

Hostilities between Modoc Indians and white settlers resulted in the Modoc War during 1872-1873. A Modoc band of nearly 200 people, led by Captain Jack Kintpuash, was fleeing a forced relocation to a reservation occupied by their enemies, the Klamaths. The band had returned to their former land on Lost River, which now had white settlers occupying the area. The conflict erupted on November 29, 1872, when 40 troops were sent to move the Modocs back to the reservation. An argument erupted and shots were fired. Several were killed and the Modocs fled to “The Stronghold,” a large, cavernous lava bed. The holdout went on for months with several clashes. On April 11, 1873, General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby and Reverend Eleazar Thomas were killed by the Modocs during a negotiation. The Modocs lacked resources and supplies and eventually surrendered on July 4. In total, 2 Modocs and 71 enlisted military men lost their lives.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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