Zula Bell Baker

Brief Life History of Zula Bell

When Zula Bell Baker was born on 25 May 1905, in West Weber, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, Harry Edgar Baker, was 50 and her mother, Sarah Jane Mills, was 36. She married Leonard Albert Anderson on 1 October 1926, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States. She immigrated to Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States in 1938 and lived in United States in 1949. She died on 3 October 1977, in Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Leonard Albert Anderson
1895–1990
Zula Bell Baker
1905–1977
Marriage: 1 October 1926

Sources (18)

  • Zula B. Anderson, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Zula B Baker Anderson, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Zula Belle Anderson, "Hawaii, Honolulu, Passenger Lists, 1900-1954"

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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.

1908 · Utah's First National Monument

Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.

1924 · The Egyptian Theater is Constructed

"After the Arlington Hotel burnt down in 1923, Harman and Louis Peery devised a plan to build a grand theater like the Grand Opera House but with moving pictures. It was constructed after the manner of other famous theaters that were Egyptian-themed. The first feature played there was a silent film titled, ""Wanderer of the Wasteland"" and was accompanied by the famous pipe organ named, ""The Mighty Wurlitzer"". In 1951 the theater was renovated so that more people would be able to enjoy the films shown there. The theater exists today but only as a community theater and performing arts house."

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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