Walter Edwin Baer

Brief Life History of Walter Edwin

When Walter Edwin Baer was born on 29 January 1899, in Glen Hope, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Cerchun Baer, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Margaret Roland, was 22. He married Marie Emma Fry in 1924, in Glen Hope, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Blain City, Beccaria Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Beccaria Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 7 June 1957, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Walter Edwin Baer
1899–1957
Marie Emma Fry
1900–2004
Marriage: 1924
Gloria Baer
1924–1983
Walter D Baer
1926–2014

Sources (6)

  • Walter Baer, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Walter Edwin Baer, "Pennsylvania Delayed Birth Records, 1941-1976"
  • Walter Bear in household of J C Bear, "United States Census, 1900"

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Name Meaning

German (also Bär): from Middle High German ber ‘bear’, a nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way, a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a performing bear, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a bear. In some cases it may derive from a personal name containing this element. Compare Bar 2.

Jewish (Ashkenazic; also Bär): from the Yiddish male personal name Ber, from Yiddish ber ‘bear’. Compare Bar 1.

Germanized form (also Bär) of Sorbian Běr: see Bar 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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