Albert Josiah Baker

Male30 June 1880–13 December 1973

Brief Life History of Albert Josiah

Albert Josiah Baker was born on 30 June 1880, in Pierson Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States as the son of C. G. Baker and Edna Wright. He married Sophia Heilman on 10 March 1917, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States. He died on 13 December 1973, in Bay Pines, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Elbridge Township Cemetery, Hart, Oceana, Michigan, United States.

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Albert Josiah Baker
1880–1973
Blanche Mildred Draggoo
1877–1960
Marriage: after 1940

Sources (23)

  • 1900 United States Federal Census
  • Albert J. Baker, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
  • Albert J Baker, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    after 1940
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Age 1

    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    1887 · Eatonville is Incorporated

    Age 7

    On August 15, 1887, the town of Eatonville was incorporated into Orange County, Florida. The town is significant for being one of the first all-black, self-governed municipalities in the country.

    1906 · Saving Food Labels

    Age 26

    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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