Brief Life History of Josiah
When Josiah Barker was born on 3 September 1883, in Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States, his father, Peter Barker, was 29 and his mother, Eleanor Heaps, was 25. He married Lucy Adelia Allen on 25 July 1906, in Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Boulder Election Precinct, Garfield, Utah, United States in 1900 and Escalante Election Precinct, Garfield, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 4 April 1963, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Escalante, Garfield, Utah, United States.
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- Josiah Barker, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Mr. Josiah Barker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Josiah Barker, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
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.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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