Brief Life History of Lois Lydia
When Lois Lydia Baker was born on 19 September 1902, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Stephen Thompson Baker, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Abel, was 34. She married Merrick Edward Sigismund Munger on 3 June 1929, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Gladstone, Clackamas, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 15 December 1984, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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- Lois Munger, "United States 1950 Census"
- Baker, "Utah Births and Christenings, 1892-1941"
- Lois Lydia Baker, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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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.
1911 · People's State Bank of American Fork
The People’s State Bank of American Fork was built in 1911. The Bank of American Fork operated out of the two story, classical revival building until the Great Depression, when the Consolidated Holding Company took over. The building still stands and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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