Brief Life History of Thurn James
When Thurn James Baker was born on 9 June 1917, in Basin, Cassia, Idaho, United States, his father, Abraham Arnold Baker, was 31 and his mother, Lena Annette Polson, was 27. He married Ardath Hoggan on 16 September 1943, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to World in 1943 and lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 2000 and Orem, Utah, Utah, United States in 2008. He registered for military service in 1943. He died on 23 February 2015, in Moses Lake, Grant, Washington, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Gardens, Moses Lake, Grant, Washington, United States.
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- Thurn Baker, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Thurn Baker - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Thurn Baker
- Thurn James Baker, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1918 · Chapman Branch Library
The Chapman Branch Library is a Carnegie library that was built in 1918 and is now is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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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Interview with Thelda by nieces Claire and Elizabeth Baker
Thelda Mae Baker Interview by Thurn Baker’s daughters, Elizabeth Baker Fielding and Claire Baker Hess Circa 1995 Ventura, California Tell us about your youth. When we moved to Utah from Idaho I was …
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