Brief Life History of Jesse Merritt
When Jesse Merritt Baker was born on 11 November 1861, in Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Baker, was 22 and his mother, Lucy Amelia Pack, was 24. He married Sarah Ann Dowdle on 22 October 1885, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1910 and Moody, Madison, Idaho, United States in 1930. He died on 13 October 1932, in Rexburg, Madison, Idaho, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Madison, Idaho, United States.
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- Jesse W Baker in household of Joseph Baker, "United States Census, 1870"
- Jesse Merrit Baker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Baker, Jessie Meritt, "Idaho, Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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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History of Jesse Merrit Baker
History of Jesse Merrit Baker written by his daughter, Laura Baker Orme, with other members of the family cooperating. It was read by Laura B Orme at the regular meeting of the Mothers and Daughters …
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