John Urban Baker Jr

Brief Life History of John Urban

When John Urban Baker Jr was born on 24 June 1926, his father, John Urban Baker Sr, was 28 and his mother, Marguerite Bechtold, was 26. He married Betty Jane Smith on 24 January 1953, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Hempfield Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1935 and Hempfield, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 28 November 1984, at the age of 58, and was buried in Landisville Mennonite Cemetery, Landisville, East Hempfield Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

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John Urban Baker Jr
1926–1984
Betty Jane Smith
1929–2007
Marriage: 24 January 1953

Sources (5)

  • John Urban Baker Jr. in household of J Urban Baker, "United States Census, 1930"
  • John Baker, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • John Baker, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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World Events (8)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

1942 · The Japanese American internment

Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.

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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