Brief Life History of King Solomon
When King Solomon Baker was born in 1902, in Tennessee, United States, his father, John Victor King Baker, was 46 and his mother, Eugenia Butts, was 27. He married Ida Belle Irby on 16 July 1928, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Yuma, Arizona, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 February 1980, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
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- King Baker, "United States Census, 1930"
- King S Baker, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- King Solomon Baker, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1917
Historical Boundaries: 1917: DeBaca, New Mexico, United States
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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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