Earl Raymond BAKER

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3 December 1909 , Revere, Massachusetts, USA

Died

5 March 1997 , Westmoreland, New Hampshire, USA

Age: 87

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Frank Louis "Jay Carling" BAKER "KING"Annie Louise RHEEL

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Born: 3 December 1909 in Revere, Massachusetts, USA

Father: Frank Louis "Jay Carling" BAKER "KING"

Mother: Annie Louise RHEEL

Paternal grandparents: Franz Karl “Frank Oscar” BEIERSTETTEL BAKER , Anna May SCHMIDT

Maternal grandparents: George Phillip RHEEL , Minna Ernestine "Minnie Alice" THEINERT

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Earl Raymond married Virginia Alice GOODRUM 20 June 1959 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA . Virginia Alice GOODRUM was born 20 June 1919 in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, USA. Virginia Alice died 14 January 2019 in Keene, New Hampshire, USA. Virginia Alice was the child of Adam Clark GOODRUM and Alice Mattie SULLIVAN.

Earl Raymond BAKER died 5 March 1997 in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, USA.

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Virginia Alice GOODRUM
Marriage date: 20 June 1959
Marriage place: Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Virginia Alice GOODRUM was the child of Adam Clark GOODRUM and Alice Mattie SULLIVAN

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EARL RAYMOND, son of Frank & Anna (Rheel), b Revere Ms Dec 3, 1909 m Manchester NH Jun 20, 1959 Virginia (Goodrum) Read b Wd Jun 20, 1919 dau of Adam C & Alice M (Sullivan) Goodrum. Ret'd to Wd, bought family homeplace after death of her mother. No ch.

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1909 Birth

Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915
Name: Raymond Baker
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Event Date: 03 Dec 1909
Event Place: Revere, Massachusetts
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volume/ page/ certificate number: p 426
Film Number: 2315294
Digital Folder Number: 4000679
Image Number: 690

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1910 Revere, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Name: Raymond Baker
birthPlace: Massachusetts
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Residence: Revere, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Marital Status: Single
race : White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year:
father's birthPlace: Wisconsin
mother's birthPlace: Connecticut
family number: 254
page number: 14
Household Gender Age
parent Frank L Baker M 28y
parent Anna Baker F 26y
Frank L Baker M 5y
Leroy Baker M 2y
Raymond Baker M y 5m

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1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1913 - Woodrow Wilson becomes President of the United States

1913 - October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated

1915 - January 25 - First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call

1917 - March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.

1917 - April 6 – WWI: The United States declares war on Germany

1918 - March 19 – The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time

1919 - June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification

1920 Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Name: Raymond Baker
Residence: Malden Ward 7 Precinct 1, Middlesex, Massachusetts
estimated Birth Year: 1910
Age: 10
birthPlace: Massachusetts
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Single
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Film Number: 1820713
Digital Folder Number: 4301110
Image Number: 00935
sheet number: 15
Household Gender Age
parent Anna L Baker F 35y
Frank Baker M 15y
Leroy Baker M 12y
Raymond Baker M 10y
Hoyt Baker M 8y

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1920 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1920 - January 17 - Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution

1921 - Warren G. Harding becomes President of the United States

1921 - Charles Strite of Minnesota patents the pop-up toaster.

1923 to 1927 - Television is invented (Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russia), Philo Taylor Farnsworth (United States))

1923 - Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States

1927 - The aerosol can is invented (Erik Rotheim, Norway)

1927 - April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television

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1928 - Sliced bread (bread slicing machine) is invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder (United States)

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1929 - Herbert Hoover becomes President of the United States

1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)

1930 Indictment for Murder

Indictments found and dispositions since Nov. 30, 1929 :

Eastern District (in charge of District Attorney William G. Clark).

Paul Smith, George A. Leet and Earl R. Baker.

Indicted in Essex County, January, 1930, for the murder of William J. Fendall, at Saugus, on Jan. 2, 1930; Paul Smith arraigned Jan. 20, 1930, and George A. Leet and Earl R. Baker arraigned Jan. 27, 1930, and each pleaded not guilty; March 12, 1930, Paul Smith and Earl R. Baker retracted former pleas and pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree; pleas accepted; sentenced thereupon to State Prison for life; April 8, 1930, nolle prosequi as to George A. Leet.

Massachusetts. Office of the Attorney General. Report of the attorney general for the year ending .. (1930).

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The Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, Monday Morning, January 27, 1930

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1930 - Scotch tape is invented (Richard Drew (3M), United States)

In 1930, on February 18, Pluto was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, marking a significant milestone in the study of our solar system.

1930 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Name: Earl R Baker
event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Boston (Districts 1-250), Suffolk, Massachusetts
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
birthPlace: Massachusetts
estimated Birth Year: 1910
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Inmate
father's birthPlace: United States
mother's birthPlace: Connecticut
enumeration district number: 53
family number:
Sheet Number and Letter: 1A
Line Number: 30
nara publication: T626, roll 943
Film Number: 2340678
Digital Folder Number: 4607679
Image Number: 00134

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1930 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1931 - The paper towel is invented (Arthur Scott, United States)

1931 - March 3 – The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem.

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The Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, Thursday, March 13, 1930

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1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President of the United States

1933 - December 5 – The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, repealing Prohibition

1934 - The metal beverage can is invented (American Can Co., United States)

1935 - The snowmobile was invented by Joseph Bombardier (Quebec, Canada)

1935 - August 14 – United States President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law

1938 - The ballpoint pen is invented (Lazlo Biro, Hungary)

1938-1944 - Sunscreen is invented (Franz Greiter, Switzerland and Benjamin Green, United States)

1938 - October 27 - Du Pont announces a name for its new synthetic yarn: nylon.

1940 Norfolk, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Name: Earl R Baker
Respondent: Yes
Age: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1910
Gender: Male
Race: White
BirthPlace: Massachusetts
Marital Status: Single
Home in 1940: Norfolk, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Street: State Prison Colony Norfolk Massachusetts
Inferred Residence in 1935: Boston, Massachusetts
Residence in 1935: Boston, Massachusetts
Sheet Number: 4B
Institution: State Prison Colony Lines 1 To 40
Household Members:
Name Age
Paul T Peterson 38
Angelo Ricciardi 26
Clyde L Scofield 43
Joaquim P Soaris 42
Walter Sousa 27
Juice H Strain 45
Julius J Unaka 25
John P Wall 28
George C Waugh 33
James A Weeks 43
Clyde W Woods 56
Ambrose C Yemma 26
Charles W Johnson 46
Alphose L Abbruzzi 35
Joseph M Lyden 44
Walter R Shute 35
Joseph A Lamoureux 39
Paul P Bagdenis 23
Earl R Baker 30
Ernest M Beckwith 21
Domencio Beninati 49
Lional J Bernier 29
Edward C Buckley 19
Edgar O Butz 50
Harold L Carlson 25
Mauel S Caverio 41
Alphouse C Costa 28
Gerald F

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1940 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1940 - April - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

1941 - December 8 - (the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor) United States declares war on Japan (WW2)

1944 - D-Day, which occurred on June 6, 1944, was a pivotal World War II operation where Allied forces launched a massive invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France. Known as Operation Overlord, it involved over 156,000 troops from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and other Allied nations. The operation aimed to liberate Western Europe from Nazi German control. The landings marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany, leading to the eventual Allied victory in Europe.

The Boston Herald, Boston, Massachusetts, Saturday, March 31, 1945

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1945 - The atomic bomb is invented (J. Robert Oppenheimer, et al., United States)

The microwave oven was invented accidentally in 1945 by Percy Spencer, a Raytheon engineer. While testing a magnetron, he noticed microwaves melted a candy bar in his pocket. Experimenting further, he discovered microwaves could cook food quickly. Raytheon patented the process, and by 1947, they built the first commercial microwave oven, called the 'Radarange.' Initially used in commercial settings, microwaves becomes affordable for home use by the 1960s and 1970s, revolutionizing cooking.

1945 - Harry S. Truman becomes President of the United States

1945 - On September 2, 1945, World War II officially ended with the formal surrender of Japan. The surrender ceremony took place aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, where Japanese officials signed the Instrument of Surrender in the presence of Allied representatives, including General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz.

1947 - Escape from prison

Escaped From Prison
18 Sep 1947 • Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
He, his brother Hoyt George Baker and another prisoner escaped from Charlestown State Prison and were apprehended an hour later.

1948 - Velcro is invented (George de Mestral, Switzerland)

1950 - Boston, Massachusetts - Prisoner - Massachusetts State Prison

Name: Earl R Baker
Age: 40
Birth Date: abt 1910
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Massachusetts
Marital Status: Never Married (Single)
Relation to Head of House: Prisoner
Residence Date: 1950
Home in 1950: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
Dwelling Number: 252
Household Members Age Relationship
Fred A Addison
26 Prisoner
Francis Ahern
24 Prisoner
Julius J Alford
33 Prisoner
Porthus E Allen
50 Prisoner
Walter E Allen
25 Prisoner
James L Almeida
44 Prisoner
Arthur C Amaral Jr
28 Prisoner
Charles Andreanpolis
23 Prisoner
Louis Andrews
35 Prisoner
Charles Antone
55 Prisoner
Casino T Aracodyania
33 Prisoner
Louis R Arquilla
19 Prisoner
Edward R Arsenault
22 Prisoner
George E Ash
26 Prisoner
James H Ashford
30 Prisoner
Albert Astrin
64 Prisoner
Alfred E Auclair
29 Prisoner
Peter A Bailey
28 Prisoner
Earl R Baker 40 Prisoner
George H Baker
38 Prisoner
George W Balben
26 Prisoner
Walter H Balben
33 Prisoner
Albert Barcelon
44 Prisoner
Richard

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1950 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1950 - June 25 - Korean War begins when North Korean forces invade South Korea.

1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United States

1953 - On July 27, 1953, the Korean War ended with the signing of an armistice agreement at Panmunjom. This ceasefire halted the conflict between North Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea, backed by United Nations forces primarily from the United States. The agreement established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) near the 38th parallel, effectively maintaining the pre-war boundary and creating a buffer zone between the two Koreas.

1957 - Paroled from prison

1958 Application for Social Security Account Number

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1959 Marriage / Partner
Earl Raymond BAKER and Virginia Alice GOODRUM 20 June 1959, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

He was 49 years old.

Boston Daily Record, Boston, Massachusetts, Saturday, February 4, 1961

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1961 - John F. Kennedy becomes President of the United States

1961 - Vietnam War officially begins with 900 military advisors landing in Saigon.

1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense 13-day standoff in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. coast. The crisis is considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. It began when American spy planes discovered the missiles, leading to a U.S. naval blockade of Cuba and intense negotiations. The crisis ended when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba and secretly agreeing to remove American missiles from Turkey.

1963 - I Have a Dream Speech - Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963.

In 1963, on November 22, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza. The assassination shocked the nation and the world, leading to widespread mourning and a period of intense national introspection. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States shortly after Kennedy's death. The assassination sparked numerous conspiracy theories and investigations, with the Warren Commission ultimately concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination. Kennedy's death had a profound impact on American politics and society, marking the end of an era often referred to as 'Camelot.'

1968 - The ATM is invented (Don Wetzel, United States)

1969 - Richard M. Nixon becomes President of the United States

1969 - July 20 - Apollo 11 - Man lands on the moon

June 17, 1972 – August 9, 1974 - Watergate Scandal began with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., in 1972. Members of President Richard Nixon's administration attempted to cover up their involvement. The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by the Nixon administration, the resignation of President Nixon in 1974, and the indictment of several administration officials.

1973 - January 22 - Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 and Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179: The U.S. Supreme Court declares that the Constitution protects women’s right to terminate an early pregnancy, thus making abortion legal in the U.S.

1973 - March 29 - The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam

The cell phone was invented by Martin Cooper of Motorola. On April 3, 1973, he made the first handheld mobile phone call with the Motorola DynaTAC. This device weighed 2.5 pounds and was 10 inches long, offering 30 minutes of talk time and requiring 10 hours to charge. The first commercial cell phone was released in 1983, revolutionizing communication and leading to the modern smartphones we use today.

1974 - Gerald R. Ford becomes President of the United States after the resignation of Richard Nixon.

1977 - Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State occurred on May 18, triggered by a 5.1 magnitude earthquake. It caused the largest landslide in recorded history, followed by a massive lateral blast. The eruption killed 57 people, destroyed 250 homes, and spread ash across the U.S.

1981 - Ronald Reagan becomes President of the United States

1981 - June 5 - First reported case of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)

1982 - The camcorder is invented (Sony Corp., Japan)

1983 - The laptop computer is invented (Radio Shack Corp., United States)

1986 - January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger accident - The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when the shuttle broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members.

1989 - The World Wide Web is invented at CERN (Tim Berners-Lee, UK)

1989 - George H. W. Bush becomes President of the United States

1993 - William J. Clinton becomes President of the United States

Death

BAKER, EARL R 03 Dec 1909 05 Mar 1997 (V) 87 03467 (Westmoreland, Cheshire, NH) (none specified) New Hampshire 003-30-5379

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