Brief Life History of Ira Decatur
When Ira Decatur Baker was born on 28 February 1874, in Metz, Marion, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Decatur Baker, was 29 and his mother, Emeline Kendall, was 29. He married Annie Laura Knighton on 11 December 1901, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Holbrook, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1910 and Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 18 December 1935, in Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Malad City Cemetery, Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States.
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- Ira Baker, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Dockiver Baker, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Ira Baker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1890
Idaho is the 43rd state.
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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