La Roy Baker

16 April 1885–24 August 1908 (Age 23)
Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of La Roy

When La Roy Baker was born on 16 April 1885, in Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Jeremiah Leavitt Baker, was 24 and his mother, Mary Tamer Lemmon, was 22. He married Charlotte Barrett on 11 December 1907, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Millville, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 24 August 1908, in Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 23, and was buried in Mendon City Cemetery, Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

La Roy Baker
1885–1908
Charlotte Barrett
1885–1980
Marriage: 11 December 1907
LaRoy Junior Baker
1908–1909

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    11 December 1907Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (1)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (5)

    World Events (8)

    1886
    Age 1
    Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
    1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
    Age 6
    Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
    Age 11
    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Miller
    Baxter

    Sources (14)

    • Laroy Baker in entry for Laray Baker, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
    • La Roy Baker in household of Jeremiah Baker, "United States Census, 1900"
    • La Roy Baker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

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