Joan Sylvia Baker

Brief Life History of Joan Sylvia

When Joan Sylvia Baker was born on 10 November 1918, in Pouce Coupe, Peace River, British Columbia, Canada, her father, Ralph Wallace Baker, was 31 and her mother, Sylvia E. Harmon, was 26. She married Sgt Albin Albert Absalon on 26 June 1937, in Huntington Park, Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in Marylhurst, Clackamas, Oregon, United States in 1998 and Estacada, Clackamas, Oregon, United States in 1998. She died on 31 January 2007, in Clackamas, Oregon, United States, at the age of 88.

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Howard Edward Ogden
1923–1994
Joan Sylvia Baker
1918–2007
Marriage: October 1964
Ralph Ogden

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  • Joan Baker in household of Leona Butler, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Sylvia A - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Sylvia A
  • Joan Baker, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968"

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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary

Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963. 

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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