Andrew Newton Baker

Brief Life History of Andrew Newton

When Andrew Newton Baker was born on 23 May 1869, in Tennessee, United States, his father, John L Baker, was 46 and his mother, Sarah Jane, was 30. He had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Dovie Jane Ferrell. He lived in Justice Precinct 5, Coryell, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 1, Henderson, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 February 1945, in Athens, Henderson, Texas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Davis Cemetery, Athens, Henderson, Texas, United States.

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Andrew Newton Baker
1869–1945
Dovie Jane Ferrell
1887–1950
Albert Lendon Baker
1903–1968
James Rufus Baker
1905–1951
Douglas Benard Baker
1908–1970
Artie Mae Baker
1912–1990

Sources (15)

  • Newton Baker in household of Jno L Baker, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Andrew Baker - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Andrew Baker
  • Andrew Newton Baker, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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