Abigail Leavitt Baker

Brief Life History of Abigail Leavitt

When Abigail Leavitt Baker was born on 7 January 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Simon Baker, was 34 and her mother, Charlotte Leavitt, was 27. She married Thomas Mathews on 17 June 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 23 November 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Mathews
1841–1917
Abigail Leavitt Baker
1846–1923
Marriage: 17 June 1865
Thomas William Matthews
1866–1935
Charlotte Ann Matthews
1868–1905
Francis Marion Mathews
1869–1939
Joseph Simon Mathews
1873–1905
Mary Maud Mathews
1874–1885
Roy Baker Mathews
1878–1923

Sources (47)

  • Abigal Baker in household of George Baker, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Abigail Mathews, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
  • Abigail Baker Mathews in entry for Thos Wm Mathews, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

World Events (8)

1847

Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1848 · Chicago Board of Trade is organized

Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.

1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.

This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.

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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BIOGRAPHY OF ABIGAIL LEAVITT BAKER MATHEWS

            Abigail Leavitt Baker was born 7 January 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois to Simon and Charlotte Leavitt Baker.                Her father Simon and Mercy Young Baker were married on 31 De …

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