Brief Life History of George Washington
When George Washington Baker was born on 9 September 1837, in Pomfret, Chautauqua, New York, United States, his father, Simon Baker, was 25 and his mother, Mercy Young, was 30. He married Agnes Richards on 18 January 1861, in Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States for about 50 years. He died on 28 October 1924, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Mendon City Cemetery, Mendon, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- George Baker, "United States Census, 1850"
- George Baker, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- George Washington Baker, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1839 · Nauvoo is Settled
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Julia Ann Shumway BIRTH 18 May 1860 Mendon, Cache County, Utah, USA DEATH 7 Oct 1860 (aged 4 months) Mendon, Cache County, Utah, USA BURIAL Mendon City Cemetery Mendon, Cache County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 92564359
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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