Brief Life History of John Edwin
When John Edwin Barker Jr was born on 10 November 1902, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, John Edwin Barker, was 39 and his mother, Rose Hannah Bacon, was 41. He married Lucille Hyde on 29 June 1928, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 14 October 1979, in Layton, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- John E. Barker, "United States 1950 Census"
- John Edward Barker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- John Edwin Barker, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
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World Events (8)
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
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 for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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History of ROSE HANNAH BACON BARKER daughter of WILLIAM BACON AND MAHALA ELIZA KING BACON
Written by Fawn Barker Morgan 1979 Surrounded by the industrial centers of Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, and Birmingham but only twenty miles from the farmland of Nottingham and Robin Hood legen …
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