Brief Life History of Ralph Doris
When Ralph Doris Baker was born on 5 April 1899, in Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States, his father, Jesse Merritt Baker, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Ann Dowdle, was 35. He married Erma Alberta Egan on 19 June 1925, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1935 and Salt Lake City Ward 6, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 1 December 1987, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Ralph D Baker, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ralph Doris Baker, "Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911"
- Ralph Doris Baker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901
First Federal election.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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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